Full Coverage: Race Politics

29.10.2009 The Obama family's success challenges patriarchal systems headed by white alpha-males and reveals possibilities of overcoming exclusion for non-white people across North and South America and Europe, contends Patricia Daley, albeit in the face of a backlash aimed at reinforcing white supremacy.

28.10.2009 What Fatima Did… was adopt the veil, to the amazement of her teenage classmates and friends. This sharp, fast-moving play shows what happened next.

23.10.2009 For many Western campaigners, the collapse of apartheid was a highlight – perhaps the highlight - of their political lives. “Separate development” was so disgusting and the enemy so obdurate that success was particularly sweet.

16.10.2009 A former South African army captain who moved to Rhodesia in 1974 and is now one of Zimbabwe’s last white farmers, Michael Campbell is not the obvious choice as the sympathetic subject of a documentary.

31.07.2009 Loss and Liberty, a new collection of ceramic artworks and poems produced by offenders at Wandsworth Prison, is on display in the Docklands Museum's London Sugar & Slavery gallery.

26.07.2009 Profane, rude, blasphemous, direct, mischievous - Kureishi's back: “There are times when we can be too respectful to one another and that can be dangerous.”

27.05.2009 The London Museum has a new display marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Anti-Apartheid Movement - "As an example of the power of collective action, this history still has great relevance today."

12.11.2008 Slavers of Harley Street, an addition to the Dockland Museum's London, Sugar and Slavery gallery, lifts the lid on London’s middle-class investments in slavery, dispelling the myth that the archetypal slave-owner was sitting on a porch in the Caribbean surveying his plantations.

10.11.2008 Almost a year since the opening of the only permanent exhibition in London dedicated to exploring slavery, the Docklands Museum is welcoming people to examine their own histories in relation to the capital city and its role in the global slave trade.

08.04.2008 The social exclusion and discrimination faced by Roma means they are not equal partners in the European Year of the Intercultural Dialogue, the European Roma Information Office said in a statement marking International Roma Day (8 April).

05.04.2008

12.03.2008 NEW YORK, Mar 12 (OneWorld) - The United States government is facing new international scrutiny for its treatment of racial minorities.

22.02.2008

07.01.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 7 (OneWorld) - Amid fears that ongoing violence could take many more human lives in Kenya, rights activists are calling for the government in Nairobi to allow an independent investigation of the presidential poll results.

26.12.2007

30.08.2007 In an attempt to derail indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu’s political party ahead of September 9 elections, a party member and local council candidate was recently assassinated.

28.08.2007 NEW YORK, Aug 28 (OneWorld) - Thousands of protesters are expected to converge on New Orleans Wednesday to raise awareness about what they believe to be the Bush administration's failure to help Americans who lost everything in the wake of a ferocious storm that hit the United States' Gulf Coast some two years ago.

14.08.2007

04.08.2007 “I’ve seen all the recent Gypsy films, including all those shown at the Barbican in June, and this is the best”, a fellow journalist said at the end of Gypsy Caravan. I don’t know if she’s right as I haven’t seen the others, but there’s no doubt that Caravan is tremendous fun.

01.08.2007 The Papua Legislative Council is deliberating a regulation that would see microchips implanted in people living with HIV/AIDS so authorities could monitor their actions. The regulation has been condemned by activists in the province as a gross violation of rights.