Addressing displacement: US cities offer displaced Black families the “right to return”
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how housing initiatives in Santa Monica and other US cities are redressing historical wrongs…
Roma across Europe seen as police target in lockdown
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Roma communities across Europe have become a police target in lockdown, a report found on Wednesday, amid a sharpening global focus on racial equality and law enforcement. The report by Amnesty International, a human rights organisation, said Roma communities had faced tougher quarantines than citizens who posed a greater health risk. […]
George Floyd: America’s racial inequality in numbers
Washington, DCThomson Reuters Foundation Protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week, have spread to dozens of cities in the United States and other world cities. Floyd’s death, at the hands of a white police officer who knelt on his neck for […]
ESSAY: HOW CAN ONE PERSON TAKE US CLOSER TO RACIAL JUSTICE? THESE THREE BYWORDS WILL HELP
In an excerpt from his latest book, ‘The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism’, JEMAR TISBY says Christians must take “courageous and urgent action to correct historic wrongs and their ongoing ramifications” when it comes to racial justice…