In late December 2024, just before the year ended, I entered the Emporium Mall in Lahore, Pakistan. I encountered a stark, heartbreaking reality: two young girls, no older than teenagers, were trapped ...

As we witness ongoing protests by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists, it’s worth exploring the roots of the movement in an earlier generation of Black intellectuals who sought to reclaim their ...

The recent conviction of white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, for the murder of a black man, George Floyd, was widely welcomed in the US and elsewhere. The US police force has long been ...

In his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that, “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is ...

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, who has served as UN Special Rapporteur on Health, is running for Johannesburg mayor under the EFF. Mofokeng criticises opponents, claiming some represent oppressive systems and ...

The must-read weekly newsletter for exclusive global health news and insider insights. From the onset, the world’s knee-jerk reaction to an unprecedented pandemic laid bare the systemic oppression of ...

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. These ...

‘Accept that their place of employment is a ‘white supremacist’ institution Teachers at an Ontario, Canada elementary school recently were shown several “anti-oppression agreements,” among them ...