Unconscious bias, a subject in psychological studies where people associate negative things with blackness and positive things with whiteness, is a concept that has been well documented. The nature of this perception is demonstrated by a controversial advertisement developed for Benetton. The ad entailed a black man and a white man handcuffed together. The fashion … Continue reading Abu Kwanza: The downplay of anti-blackness within the Muslim community
The inhumane treatment of Black people in the Maghreb must be criminalised
Tunisa has recently (2018) seen significant reform in civil rights law – namely the criminalisation of racism within the country. The “Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination” Act was passed on the 9th of October following a series of violent racially motivated incidents and a climate of severely entrenched racial discrimination and divide (see … Continue reading The inhumane treatment of Black people in the Maghreb must be criminalised
Reparations March UK
Black Muslim Forum fully supports and endorses the reparations march that takes place annually in the UK as well as the general philosophy of a reparations movement. Africans and the African Diaspora deserve at the very least a formal apology for the trauma of enslavement and the brutality of colonial domination which has yet to … Continue reading Reparations March UK