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.
Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
@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?