by Oui
Sun Nov 9th, 2025 at 06:11:53 PM EST
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Cops Arrested a Black Man at Gas Station--Next Day,
He's the Judge Presiding Over Their Hearing |
This story exposes the daily reality of racial profiling while offering hope through concrete reform. From viral video to courtroom confrontation to community transformation, follow a landmark case that forces a reckoning with America's racist policing legacy. Beyond individual accountability, witness the challenging work of reimagining public safety through civilian oversight, policy overhaul, and cultural shift. Perfect for viewers seeking inspiration in the fight against racist systems and those who believe in the possibility of justice through persistence and courage.
Reflecting on Race, Racism and Transitional Justice | Law Stanford U. |
In 2020, amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, diverse groups of people all over the world took to the streets to communicate a message that is the lived truth of racially marginalized people - that racism rooted in the legacies of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and of European colonial domination remains a systemic and fatal reality. This is the case even (or especially) within the liberal democratic nations whose self-conceptions are of having long disavowed these legacies.
In response, then editors-in-chief of this Journal, Hugo van der Merwe and M. Brinton Lykes, wrote a piercing reflection on racism and transitional justice, one that surveyed the study and practice of the field, and the publication history of this Journal. Their Editorial, as they noted, was the product of a transnational uprising for racial justice initiated under the banner of Black Lives Matter, an uprising that marked a seismic shift even in the global order's account of the nature of racial discrimination and injustice in the context of law enforcement.
The year 2020 was one that initiated and mainstreamed much-needed reflection on the embedded nature of racism in many areas of life, and academic institutions and journals were by no means spared. Long overdue discussions and processes to consider anti-racist orientations seemed to mark a critical and welcome inflection point. But backlash against these advances swiftly followed and remains visible in resurgent overtly White supremacist political and social agendas, as well as more (thinly) veiled attempts to silence and erase critique of historically embedded contemporary structures of racism. This includes through transnational attacks against Critical Race Theory, and Diversity Equity and Inclusion efforts launched initially in the United States but reverberating as far beyond its borders as South Africa. At the same time, within academia - at least across the networks that we are a part of - a form of `racial justice fatigue' appears to be setting in, and liberal institutions that were seemingly galvanized to fight racism in 2020 now range from less enamored to increasingly hostile to the project of undoing systemic racism in academia and the knowledge it produces.
The roots of European racism lie in the slave trade, colonialism - and Edward Long | The Guardian Opinion - 8 Sept. 2025 |
For much of the period from the 15th century till now, during which Europeans and Africans have been connected through trade, empire and migration, both forced and voluntary, Europe has viewed the people of Africa through the distorting veil of racism and racial theory. In the British case much of the jumble of stereotypes, pseudo-science and wild conjecture that coalesced to form racism arose from the political battles fought over the slave trade and slavery, during the last decades of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th. The men who set out to defend slavery assembled a vast arsenal of new claims and old theories about black people, which they then codified, refined and disseminated through books, pamphlets, cartoons and speeches.
Racial ideas were aimed at Africans
in their home continent, as well as at
those in bondage in the New World
That propaganda campaign, along with the institution of British slavery itself, was ultimately defeated by the moral energy of the abolitionist campaign, and by the determination of the slaves of the Caribbean to resist their enslavement, yet the ideas about the nature of African peoples and the cultures of Africa that had been marshalled by the pro-slavery lobby lived on. Some, in more subtle forms, are still with us today.
A study by the Pew Research Center found Surinam to be the fourth most religiously diverse country in the world after Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam
Suriname ranks among the world's 4th-highest in religious diversity
Suriname ranks fourth globally among countries with the highest religious diversity. This is according to the updated Religious Diversity Index (RDI) released a few days ago by the Pew Research Center.
