Lawsuit Accuses Kanye West of Racism Against African Americans, Judeophobia and Homophobia
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, a former employee accused Kanye West of racism against African-Americans and said he witnessed West’s homophobic and anti-Semitic outbursts. Trevor Phillips, who…
Tesla faced a class action lawsuit from 6,000 black workers
A California court has previously allowed workers to file a class-action lawsuit against Tesla alleging racism, with a hearing scheduled for October 2024. As Bloomberg points out,…
Apple allowed employees to talk about discrimination and harassment at work – the company revised the terms of the NDA
Apple will no longer prohibit its employees from speaking out about issues of harassment and discrimination in the workplace by revising its non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Last year,…
Up to 12 current and former Yorkshire staff ‘face charges’ over Azeem Rafiq racism row
The England and Wales Cricket Board is poised to charge up to 12 current and former Yorkshire staff over the Azeem Rafiq racism affair, it was reported…
Coming to England, review: a wasted opportunity to show how Floella Benjamin so spectacularly beat the odds
Based on Floella Benjamin’s childhood memoir first published in 1997, Coming to England is billed as one of the highlights of Birmingham Rep’s new season, celebrating the…
Aaron Sorkin’s revelatory adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird blazingly captures the zeitgeist
Put simply, we may be rooting for him, but, in fact, he too is in the dock. What value is a noble-minded faith in “the system”, if…
To Kill a Mockingbird teaches us about defying the mob. Let’s not try to cancel it
It’s true that the novel (even if you allow for the fact that it was written in very different times) is not perfect, and it is regrettable…
Tony Sewell deserves praise, not censure
Dr Tony Sewell, chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) runs an organisation called “Generating Genius”. I have always found the word “generating” in…
Teaching of race ideology in schools is ‘absolutely terrifying’, warns minister
The teaching of race ideology in schools is “absolutely terrifying”, the equalities minister has said, as she warns that children should not be asked to take the…
Ethnic minority success stories must be ‘acknowledged’, says minister as she unveils race inequality plan
The Government has unveiled its long-awaited strategy to “counter the pessimism that often prevails in debates about race in the UK”. Kemi Badenoch, the equalities minister, on Thursday…
Instead of teaching children racial and emotional literacy, how about we teach them to be literate?
Whenever you read about a particularly cretinous new strategy, policy or initiative, there’s a strong chance it’ll have something to do with Brighton and Hove City Council….
Small Island is a tremendous, tragi-comic dance through a pivotal moment in British history
Given the National Theatre’s reported lockdown losses of £50 million, not to mention its more recent Covid woes and the all-out flop that was Manor (in the…
Michael Vaughan: I thought, ‘I don’t need to be educated on race – I’m a good guy’
The BBC was not the only broadcaster to put Vaughan on hold. BT Sport had been scheduled to carry his broadcast analysis of the Ashes for Fox…
Michael Vaughan: I thought, ‘I don’t need to be educated on race – I’m a good guy’
The BBC was not the only broadcaster to put Vaughan on hold. BT Sport had been scheduled to carry his broadcast analysis of the Ashes for Fox…
The horror of Zoombombing and how it’s pushing Jewish life underground
But when Jews and other minority groups are targeted, it is with the specific intention of causing them harm, he says. “These people are trying to hurt…
Kate Clanchy: How my memoirs were sullied to suit Twitter’s woke agenda
Perhaps this is a reflection of the sensitivity read’s origins in children’s and young adult fiction. There are good reasons for regulating children’s reading: it is foundational…
My memoirs were sullied to suit Twitter’s woke agenda
Perhaps this is a reflection of the sensitivity read’s origins in children’s and young adult fiction. There are good reasons for regulating children’s reading: it is foundational…
Hamlet holds ‘racist’ views of black people, Globe claims in drive to decolonise Shakespeare’s work
Hamlet describes his evil uncle Claudius as a “moor” but his own beloved father as “fair”, showing an equivalence of “dark” with “bad” and “light/fair” with “good”…
Labour MP faces racism claims for ‘linking journalist to Chinese spy’
A Labour MP has been reported to a parliamentary complaints body after he was accused of making a racist comment towards a journalist. Neil Coyle was reported…
Army plans diversity training day for soldiers as Ukraine tensions escalate
Confirming there will be no impact on operations, Major General Paul Griffiths, the director of Army personnel, said: “The British Army’s culture is built upon strong values,…
‘You’re either a bike or a dyke’ my police colleagues would tell women
“Oh,” my colleague remarked as I waited outside a meeting room at the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London. “Are you here to bring tea and coffee?” It…
Priti Patel blames Met Commissioner Cressida Dick for ‘failures of leadership’
Highly offensive language used on WhatsApp and in Facebook chats by officers from a now disbanded team based in Westminster, primarily at Charing Cross Police station, was…
The bullying and harassment at the dark heart of Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto said it has accepted all of the review’s 26 recommendations, which range from better education on sexual harassment and racism to “ensuring leaders at all…
Metropolitan Police officers ‘joked about rape and killing African children’, watchdog finds
Metropolitan Police officers joked about raping women, beating up their partners and killing black children, a damning report by the police watchdog has found. Appalling messages shared…
An obsession with ‘personal truth’ is damaging fiction
What this all means is that any sense of debate is instantly shut down, and what is fiction if we can’t prod its ambiguities, and at times…