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The number of acts of violence against refugees remains at a high level

The Amadeu Antonio Foundation recorded more than 11,200 cases of right-wing violence against people seeking protection between 2015 and 2019. The BKA statistics are therefore incomplete. Violence a...

US Justice Dept closes Emmett Till lynching case without charges.

No one has been convicted in the 1955 abduction, torture and killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi. The United States Justice Department has said it is ending a reopened investigation i...

Racist attack on the subway

A 46-year-old was the victim of a racist attack on the subway on Tuesday. A 43-year-old insulted her and pushed the woman out of the stationary car. A 46-year-old woman was racially insulted and ev...

People exhibited like animals

The Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg is apparently having a hard time coming to terms with its past at the Völkerschau. Descendants of people exhibited at that time are finally demanding a critical ex...

General Lee is melted down

A sculpture of the Confederate general has sparked deadly racial hatred in Charlottesville. Now the statue goes into the Furnace. One of the most famous monuments of the American Southern States is...

Third division game canceled after racist incident

Due to racist insults from the stands, the third division game between Duisburg and Osnabrück has been stopped. "This is a low point in our club's history," says a Duisburg club spokesman. Sad nove...

New lawn libraries are popping up across the country, and they're stocked with just one kind of book: Anti-racist.

Kristen Berthiaume set up a tiny library outside her house in Homewood, Ala., and stocked it with anti-racist books shortly after a police officer murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. Be...

Want to avoid being a racist? Black Brazilian philosopher Djamila Ribeiro has written a guide to explain how.

The existence of racial discrimination is widely acknowledged in the country of 210 million people, says the author of “A Little Anti-racist Handbook.” But few do anything to change those attitudes...

A white man shot his Black neighbor in Missouri, claiming self-defense. Neighbors tell a different story.

Justin King was shot Nov. 3 in the small town of Bourbon, Missouri, by his neighbor. King's family said he was killed in "cold blood." Justin King, a 28-year-old Black and Filipino man, was shot N...