Race and Ethnicity Archives

The security camera video was shocking in its brutality. A 65-year-old Filipino immigrant was walking down a street near Times Square when a man, in…

Americas

An Asian-American Official Bared His Chest, Revealing Scars From His Army Service

mediabest 03/29/2021 Race and Ethnicity US Military

As town meetings go, the discussion was fairly routine, meandering from what Memorial Day celebrations might look like in the second year of the coronavirus…

Business

He Redefined ‘Racist.’ Now He’s Trying to Build a Newsroom.

mediabest 03/22/2021 News media Race and Ethnicity

BOSTON — Ibram X. Kendi and Bina Venkataraman met last summer when their big Boston institutions, Boston University and The Boston Globe, were grappling with…

Americas

How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian-American Women

mediabest 03/18/2021 Race and Ethnicity Women and G

After eight people, six of them Asian women, were fatally shot this week in a rampage near Atlanta, a law enforcement official said that in…

Europe

‘There Is, in Britain, a Very Big Silence Around Race’

mediabest 03/11/2021 Discrimina Race and Ethnicity

LONDON — She was married to the spirited strains of a gospel choir, her veil embroidered with the flowers of Britain’s former colonies, a rare…

Analysis & Comment

Opinion | Declare Racism a Public Health Emergency

mediabest 03/07/2021 coronavirus Race and Ethnicity

While Black and Latinx people make up only 13 and 18 percent of the U.S. population respectively, as of November they represent more than 50…

Americas

Before Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, There Was Ahmaud Arbery

mediabest 02/28/2021 Black Peopl Race and Ethnicity

A year after his killing in Georgia, his death has sparked a bipartisan effort to remake the state’s 158-year-old citizen’s arrest law. But a potentially…

Europe

African-American Sacrifice in the Killing Fields of France

mediabest 02/28/2021 Race and Ethnicity WORLD WAR I

SÉCHAULT, France — The modest granite monument at the entrance to Séchault, a village in eastern France, commemorates the sacrifice of the United States 369th…

Americas

The Brutal Attack on a Thai Man in San Francisco Outrages Asian-Americans

mediabest 02/27/2021 Asian Ameri Race and Ethnicity

Among Asian-Americans, many of whom have endured racist taunts, rants and worse during the pandemic, the fatal assault on a defenseless older man became a…

Analysis & Comment

Opinion | The Book That Should Change How Progressives Talk About Race

mediabest 02/19/2021 Race and Ethnicity White Peopl

When Heather McGhee was a 25-year-old staffer at Demos, the progressive think tank she would eventually lead, she went to Congress to present findings on…

Europe

France Sees an Existential Threat from American Campuses

mediabest 02/11/2021 Discr Islam Race and Ethnicity

PARIS — The threat is said to be existential. It fuels secessionism. Gnaws at national unity. Abets Islamism. Attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage. The…