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Muslims must always prove beyond an unreasonable doubt that we are patriotic, and outraged over things we didn't do

SOUTH African student Nkandu Mwenge speaks out on racism and his personal brush with a less savoury side of Melbourne. But it's the lack of dialogue on race, he says, that's most concerning.

Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay responds to claims that a police operation in Melbourne's inner-north was based on racial profiling.

In a stunning victory for immigration advocates, the Associated Press Stylebook, the bible of grammar and style for journalists in the U.S., will no longer describe people who live in a country illegally as “illegal immigrants.” The reasoning is one that activists have been making for years, with campaigns such as “Drop the I-Word”: People are not illegal. Actions are.

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Milan players walk off the pitch after Kevin-Prince Boateng is racially abused by a section of supporters. The incident happened during a friendly between th...

A new website providing news for Australia's African community says it's trying to reverse negative community attitudes about Africans.

That colonialist idea of a black woman on earrings is even more problematic when you realize that Dolce and Gabbana liked black women enough to exoticise on earrings but not to include them in their show.

A Sudanese crime wave in Melbourne? Don’t buy it, says solicitor Tamar Hopkins who works with Sudanese youth.

A Sydney bus driver has been praised for his actions after ejecting a group of teenage girls when they began racially abusing another passenger, in the latest case of racism to blight the city's public transport system.

Jim Gile, a Republican commissioner in Saline County, Kansas, used an offensive racial slur during an argument with a fellow commissioner, but he wants everyone to know that he isn’t a racist because he’s “built Habitat homes for colored people,” ...

Recent videos capturing racist abuse on public transport in Melbourne and Sydney have caused a stir across the Australian media. But for many minorities there's nothing shocking about bigotry and humiliation in public—it's simply a part of their everyday experience. Waleed Aly investigates the latest incident of ugly Australian racism and asks whether the media frenzy is a symptom of denial rather than legitimate moral outrage.

Much vituperative nonsense afflicts First Nations, most of it stoked by ignorance and intellectual laziness. One example appeared Wednesday as a letter to the Nanaimo Daily News. It triggered an instant Internet furor. In less than an hour, a protest was organized. By midnight, Facebook and Twitter posts numbered in the thousands. By Thursday, a major advertiser was reportedly yanking ads. The newspaper stripped the letter from its website and followed with an apology of sorts.

Last month I gave a talk on the Political Economy of Racism at the New York Marxism Conference. Last week the talk was published on SocialistWorker.org. I was trying to build on the ideas presented in...

An emerging controversy in Canada is a good example of just how difficult it is to be racially-neutral when the context is racially-charged. The country recently redesigned its money. On the back of the $100 dollar bill celebrating medical innovation they sketched an Asian-appearing woman looking into a microscope. In a focus group in Quebec, people complained that the bill reproduced the stereotype that Asians pursue careers in science and medicine. The Vancouver Sun reports: