Racial Abuse

President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered the federal government to do more to address racial inequality as the challenges and complexities of systemic racism are again drawing the public's attention. The order, signed during Black History Month, requires that an initial review into long-standing disparities in government services and treatment that he ordered on his first day in office become an annual requirement for federal agencies. The reviews are aimed at increasing access to federal programs, services and activities for disadvantaged communities. The new order also directs federal agencies to have equity teams and name senior leaders who would be accountable for increasing equity and addressing bias. My Administration has embedded a focus on equity into the fabric of Federal policymaking and service delivery, Biden wrote in the order, adding that, By advancing equity, the Federal Government can support and empower all Americans, including the many communities in America that hav

Instances of racial slurs have soared on Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the influential platform, despite assurances from the platform that it had reduced hateful activity, a digital civil rights group reported on Thursday. Researchers at the Centre for Countering Digital Hate found that the number of tweets containing one of several different racial slurs soared in the week after Musk bought Twitter. A racial epithet used to attack Black people was found more than 26,000 times, three times the average for 2022. Use of a slur that targets trans people increased 53 per cent, while instances of an offensive term for homosexual men went up 39 per cent over the yearly average. Examples of offensive terms used to target Jews and Hispanics also increased. All told, the researchers looked at nearly 80,000 English-language tweets and retweets from around the world that contained one of the offensive terms they searched for. The figures show that despite claims from Twitter's Head of Tr

The Canadian government made clear that Pope Francis' apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country's church-run residential schools didn't go far enough

Thousands of Indigenous persons are expected to converge on Monday on the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis to hear a long-awaited apology from Pope Francis for generations of abuse

In October last year, Tesla was ordered to pay $137 million in damages to a Black former contractor who accused the company of ignoring discrimination and racial abuse

Electric vehicle company TeslaAhas managed to convince a judge to slash the historic $137 million award it was supposed to pay a former employee as part of a racial abuse lawsuit to $15 million.

Tesla has been ordered by a federal court to pay nearly $137 million as damages to a former employee who allegedly encountered racist abuse, discrimination and harassment at the company's plant

Cricket Australia on Wednesday confirmed that the members of the Indian cricket team were subjected to racial abuse during the third Test at Sydney

Former legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar condemned the racial abuse subjected to the Indian team players in the ongoing third Test and said that "the sport is meant to unite us"

Reacting to the racial abuse of Mohammad Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah, former India batsman Yuvraj Singh said the spirit of unity should be encouraged as there is no discrimination in the world of sport

Former India batsman Gambhir said sending the guilty individuals out of the stadium isn't enough while stressing that strict laws are the "permanent solution" against the racial abuse in cricket

India pacer Mohammed Siraj was called a "Brown Dog" and "Big Monkey" in a series of racist slurs hurled by a group of Australian spectators, a BCCI official has alleged

For Virat Kohli, it is "absolute peak of rowdy behaviour" that few Australian fans hurled racial slur at Mohammed Siraj during the third Test as the India captain demanded action against the offenders

Two powerful American lawmakers have introduced a resolution that calls for an end to enforced disappearances in Asia and the world and supports justice and accountability for the victims

McDonald's Corp has been sued by 52 Black former franchise owners who accuse the fast-food giant of racial discrimination

Training can actually harm workplace relationships, while mentoring places the burden of changing the system on those disadvantaged by it and with the least influence over it

The apology followed a sharp backlash to the Special Report with Bret Baier segment

The researcher said the study was also relevant in the context of recent developments in the United States and UK.

Abuses like 'you bloody black Indians' were used on the victim