Category: Department of Justice

• Houleye Thiam: The Sad Story of Black Muslim Mauritanians

  

  The Islamic Republic of Mauritania is a racially and ethnically diverse country that straddles the divide between North and West Africa, bridging the Sahara and the Sahel. Since its artificial creation by the former colonising power France in 1960, this nation has been a theatre for violent ethnic conflicts, disgraceful practices of slavery, racial discrimination…

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  10 Aug 2020

  Africa, Department of Justice, MENA

  anti-black racism, black rights, Mauritania, racism

• Rashid Rose: Black Lives Matter

  

  Chant: “What we want?” Crowd response: “Justice!” Chant: “When we want it?” Crowd response: “Now!” That in a nutshell sums up the attitude of millions of people all around the world to the brutal murder of the umpteenth victim of racist violence, Bro. George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA on African Liberation Day (May 25) 2020.…

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  19 Jul 2020

  Department of Justice, North America, Regions

  black lives matter, BLM, breonna Taylor, george floyd, racial equality, racial justice

• Abu Kwanza: Anti-blackness in Denmark

  

  Would it come as a surprise that Denmark was once the 7th largest slave dealing nation that participated in the transatlantic slave trade? For some reason, there seems to be a void in Danish society’s collective consciousness, which perhaps isn’t so strange since most of us don’t see the immediate effects of slavery around us.…

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  8 Apr 2020

  Europe, Regions

  anti-blackness, denmark, racism