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People may have racial preferences, and that in itself is not racism, said Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam yesterday.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Fighting racism means calling it out in public and online, says associate editor Chua Mui Hoong.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

It is time to have deeper engagements about how to achieve a truly multi-racial and multi-religious society, she said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

S'poreans must remember they live in a multiracial society, keep working to boost cohesion, he adds.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Alberto Fernandez has said, unlike Mexicans and Brazilians, Argentines are from Europe, sparking accusations of racism.

He made the comments in the wake of a video showing an interracial couple being harassed by a man in Orchard Road.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Some 82.5 percent of directors among Fortune 500 boards are white, according to the latest Board Diversity Census.

What was officially a difficult jumble of numbers and widely referred to as the "Indian variant" is now just the Delta variant. A doctor of Indian origin, who was on Covid-19 duty in a Texas hospital for most of the past year, said he had become especially conscious about his ethnicity in recent months. In April, a Caucasian infected with the coronavirus refused to let the 30-something doctor see him, and demanded different physicians till the one assigned was not of East or South Asian descent...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promises resources to address violence against Indigenous women.

On the same day authorities clear George Floyd Square, deputies shoot Black man during arrest.