Tag: Racism
Memory Day, Mattarella: “Preventing and fighting every germ of racism”
(Finance) – “If understanding is impossible, knowing is necessary, because what happened can return, consciences can be seduced and obscured again: ours too”. These are the words of Primo Levi,…
positive discrimination at university again in question
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two affirmative action cases at two of the country’s oldest and most prestigious universities. Once again, it therefore plans to reconsider its case…
three police officers tried for their passivity in the murder of George Floyd
A white policeman has already been sentenced to 22 years in prison for asphyxiating African-American George Floyd. It is now the turn of three of his colleagues to be tried…
Sentenced for incitement to hatred, Éric Zemmour announces appeal
Presidential candidate Éric Zemmour was sentenced on Monday to a fine of 10,000 euros for incitement to hatred after remarks on unaccompanied minors in 2020. He announced that he would…
“Stay Up” by Michel Zecler
In November 2020, the Loopsider site published a video of unbearable violence: that of a man being beaten up by police in his music studio in Paris. The victim, Michel…
History and Race with Grace Ly
Incredible, there is the word race in Grace. But is her name really Grace Ly? Nicknamed small banana by mom, she made a food blog out of it. So blogger…
Football: German third division match arrested for racist insults
The match between Duisburg and Osnabrück was definitively stopped by the referee, this Sunday, December 19 after half an hour of play due to attacks suffered by striker Aaron Opoku.…
seven gendarmes arrested for racial hatred towards immigrant workers
The arrest of seven gendarmes accused of racial hatred against Asian workers in Portugal arouses commotion. Prime Minister Antonio Costa, himself of Indian origin, qualified the attitude of the agents…
Yorkshire cricket club fires coaches
Yorkshire County Cricket Club are parting ways with their entire coaching staff following the racism scandal within the club. A decision that comes after the revelations of the player Azeem…
How Josephine Baker earned her place in the Pantheon
This Tuesday, November 30, 2021, Joséphine Baker enters the Panthéon. Forty-six years after his death, the icon of the Roaring Twenties joins the great French figures who rest in this…