Estee Lauder product review will include assessing use of terms such as 'brightening' & 'lightening'. The cosmetics company was earlier confronted by employees over racial matters.
Commemorating the Haitian Revolution of 1791, UNESCO has designated 23 August as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
In ‘Bland Fanatics’, Pankaj Mishra writes how books and films portray the pre-war years as an age of prosperity in Europe. But it was full of war, racism and genocide.
Asian American & White people have only one-tenth to one-fourth the chance of being admitted as African Americans with comparable academic credentials, according to US govt.
If the goal is to promote hope and to inspire change, it would be far better to build. The cause of justice would not be much helped by tearing down old statues.
Awareness campaigns have encouraged Americans to support their local Asian restaurants. But many owners say the decision to close was due to in-house safety concerns.
Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities.
In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.
The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.
@Subhasis Ghosh…in America, any ‘appearance’ of being black, ‘makes’ you black…going back to slavery and the ‘one drop rule’ … just dummying it down for you but it’s complicated … your statement is ignorant to the nth degree …. interesting when folks who appear to come from the world’s worst example of a caste system makes these comments.
There are obvious advantages in certain jobs and certain political and social circles to be a Black in US. Otherwise why will Kamala Harris, raised by her Indian mother, eschew her Indian background and opt for the Black one of her father?
@Subhasis Ghosh…in America, any ‘appearance’ of being black, ‘makes’ you black…going back to slavery and the ‘one drop rule’ … just dummying it down for you but it’s complicated … your statement is ignorant to the nth degree …. interesting when folks who appear to come from the world’s worst example of a caste system makes these comments.
There are obvious advantages in certain jobs and certain political and social circles to be a Black in US. Otherwise why will Kamala Harris, raised by her Indian mother, eschew her Indian background and opt for the Black one of her father?