By Alana Lentin As coronavirus continues to rampage across the globe, it has become apparent that, while biologically the virus may not discriminate, it is having a much worse effect on people from ethnic minorities. As the researcher Omar Khan has noted, BAME Covid-19 deaths “track existing […]
By Audrey J. Bernard Julia Jansch Congratulations to director Julia Jansch whose brilliant short documentary “My Father The Mover” won top honors at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) presented by AT&T. The film — in which kids find their superpowers through beats […]
Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, who originally produced that song, told the Jamaican Observer that she died from a stroke. Recorded under the name Millie, My Boy Lollipop reached No 2 in the UK and US, with Blackwell remembering: “It became a hit pretty […]
During this COVID-19 lockdown, I have been able to produce more of the award-winning 30-year-old OUR ROOTS series and update older drawings of years past. I am planning to take OUR ROOTS to the next level. Stay tuned. Here on EURweb, you will be able to […]
With a spike in anti-Asian discrimination related to the coronavirus pandemic, New York City has formed a team to respond to the incidents. The New York City Commission on Human Rights announced Sunday that the coronavirus response team would handle reports of harassment and discrimination […]
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed an executive order on Monday creating an advisory task force meant to help address how the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately infected and killed Black and brown Americans. The Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities is expected to study and investigate the causes […]
Black Wall Street, a historic black and affluent district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was infamously burned down by an angry white mob during the 1921 Race Massacre. Now, almost a century later, the community will be rebuilt thanks to a grant. In 1921, the thriving […]
(GIN) – During a debate on drug testing on French TV, Jean-Paul Mira, head of intensive care at a Parisian hospital said: “If I can be provocative, shouldn’t we be doing this vaccine trial in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatments, no […]
Ellis Marsalis Jr., jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan that includes famed performer sons Wynton and Branford, has died after battling pneumonia brought on by the new coronavirus, one of his sons said late Wednesday. He was 85. […]
In the grainy cell phone video, the prison block is dim and the shouting muffled—but the sight of wafting, gray smoke is unmistakable. “It’s a nonviolent protest going on right now because the officers, in the middle of the coronavirus, have refused us […]
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