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Asian Americans exist in a weird but convenient lacuna in US politics and culture - racialised and yet not fitting into the standard American narrative of race.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Threat From Anti-Black Antiracists | RealClearPolitics

The 2020 murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbrey, three Black Americans killed by white people, was a wakeup call that resulted in a mass racial reckoning across the country. Protestors took to the streets for months on end throughout the spring and summer, and schools, organizations, businesses and corporations telegraphed their commitment to rooting out the ways they were contributing to systemic racism. Organizations issued passionate statements about the evil of anti-Bl...

The police officers involved in the arrest and death from asphyxiation of an unarmed Black man in the US state of New York last year will not face criminal charges, the state’s attorney general announced on Tuesday. A grand jury voted not to indict any officer involved in the death of 41-year-old Daniel Prude, who died after police put a spit hood over his head and held him down during an arrest in Rochester, the state’s third-largest city, in March. Prude’s arrest – which was captured ...

The mother of Ahmaud Arbery filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on Tuesday against the three men accused of killing her son, a Black man who was chased down and shot dead as he jogged through his Georgia neighbourhood. The $1m suit, filed by Wanda Cooper-Jones on the anniversary of her son’s death, also names police and other officials who did not initially bring charges in the case. It alleges the killing was racially motivated, stating that the defendants “were motivated to deprive Ahmau...

Tuesday marks the first anniversary of the day Ahmaud Arbery was killed by two white men armed with guns as he ran through their neighbourhood in Georgia, and those close to Arbery are planning a vigil to memorialise and celebrate his life. Arbery’s killing occurred as the United States was settling into COVID-19 lockdowns. Authorities questioned the three white men involved in Arbery’s killing, but little happened for more than two months until a national outcry erupted after cellphone vid...

McClain, a 23-year-old unarmed Black man, died after being restrained by police and injected with ketamine in 2019.

Race, Police and Innumeracy | RealClearPolitics

Tom Van Grieken, President of the far right Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang leaves after a meeting with Belgiums King Philippe at the Royal Palace in Brussels, Belgium May 29, 2019 [Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters] This January, Belgium’s statistical agency, Statbel, released the first official study on the diversity of the Belgian population. The picture that emerged is one of an increasingly diverse and heterogeneous society. The study revealed that while Belgian citizens of Belgian a...

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) added 11 cases to its “Innocence List” that tracks American death row exonerations on Thursday, bringing the total to 185 and raising concerns over the likelihood more innocents – especially people of colour – will be condemned. “Everybody’s worst fear about capital punishment is that innocent people will be wrongfully convicted and executed,” Robert Dunham, the DPIC’s executive director, said in the report on the added exonerations. �...