Tag: journalism
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Abu Kwanza: The downplay of anti-blackness within the Muslim community
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…
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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…
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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…