Race issues
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Birmingham school faces second discrimination caseHeartlands academy, which ended teaching assistant’s job over 9/11 footage objection, now faces racial discrimination allegations -
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Racial Discrimination Act debate a 'creep back to bigotry', says Pat DodsonIndigenous senator says ‘racism isn’t growing wild in the fields, it’s being tended in flower boxes in flats and houses’
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Far right movements have been successful globally by politicising hostility to immigrants and cultivating a resurgent ethnonationalism. The left can – and should – fight backHow can the left respond to the global resurgence of far-right populism?
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The Guardian view on the Jo Cox murder trial: a killing of our timesEditorial: The rule of law and liberal society have responded well to the Labour MP’s murder. Yet the case is a sign of the times, not some inexplicable event
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Rosamund Pike: ‘I'm happy being No 2. The guy's usually No 1'Things exploded for her after Gone Girl. So where are all the meaty lead roles? As A United Kingdom is released, Rosamund Pike talks nails, nans and nappies
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White fragility, white fear: the crisis of racial identity in Australia, and beyondIf you were supported for the majority of your life in a world that reinforced white supremacy, you become fearful rather than embrace a deconstruction of the truth
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'We know what it is to bury a child' – the black mothers turning mourning into a movementParents of Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell have been united by the deaths of their children. Here, they speak of their loss, the fight for black lives and their fears for Trump’s America
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Weak, noncommittal language allows people to hide from reality and avoid accountability. Writers must not be afraid to call some of Trump’s believers what they truly areWhite nationalists? Alt-right? If you see a Nazi, say Nazi
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Bernie Sanders still says class is more important than race. He is still wrongSanders spoke about the need to move ‘beyond identity politics,’ apparently not recognizing that this is impossible in America
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Q&A; recap: panellists clash over race, Bill Leak cartoon and 18CAboriginal playwright Nakkiah Lui criticises columnist Greg Sheridan for defending Leak’s controversial cartoon, saying it was ‘very, very racist’
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'White Lives Matter' protest leads to clashes and arrests in TexasCounter-protesters confronted group at Texas capitol after governor dedicates monument recognizing African American contributions to the state
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The same people who railed against ‘political correctness’ now seem to believe there should be no criticism of their choice. You can’t have it both ways‘Vote shaming’ Trump supporters is fair. What they have done is shameful
We wouldn’t play black v white football now, but that’s hardly an end to racism