Police brutality has always been condemned across the world. Yet, in India, we tolerate active and passive versions of it towards stranded and hungry migrants during lockdown.
Can the ever-changing lingua franca of the youth help us make sense of a world in constant flux?
Lewis Hamilton took part in a protest in his native England, with the coronavirus-hit 2020 F1 season not scheduled to start until July
HUL's decision comes a week after American multinational Johnson and Johnson announced that it will be stopping the sale of two fairness products that are sold in India.
Darren Sammy's comments came in the wake of the death of 46-year-old George Floyd, an African-American who was left gasping for breath after a white police officer pressed his knee on the handcuffed man's neck in USA last week.
Darren Sammy's allegation came after his vociferous support to the 'Black Lives Matter' campaign around the world after the killing of African-American George Floyd in the US.
Squad members posted a picture of the act on their social media accounts with the caption, "Unity is strength #BlackLivesMatter." The picture of 29 players from the English league leaders was taken during a training session.
A generation of African American or Black women wrote their way into history and built an archive for the women who followed and who are to come.
Barack Obama saluted protesting American sport stars, and LeBron James expressed his exasperation at racial injustice in the United States
George Floyd died last week gasping for breath while a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee on the handcuffed man's neck, leading to violent protests across America
Our colonial history cannot be forever blamed for the obsession of Indians with white skin tone.
In this Independence Day special issue, Outlook turns its gaze on the virus of racism that we as a nation have failed to conquer. George Floyd is not just an American phenomenon. We too have a similar share of crying shame that shackles us from being truly free.
Darren Sammy has been vocal about racism and colourism that has choked the non-White and poor people across the world.
Religion as race? That's one more reason why the anti-CAA protests recalled #BlackLivesMatter. The BJP is remaking the Indian Hindu...and also the Indian Muslim.
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