The French actress Aïssa Maïga created a book about the lack of Black representation in French cinema and television, “Black is not my profession”. She also spoke out about the subject on stage at...
UN special envoy tells Security Council to act to avoid ‘bloodbath’ in Myanmar
United Nations special envoy on #Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener told a session of the #UN Security Council on Wednesday that ‘a bloodbath is imminent’ in the Southeast Asian country as a #crackdown...
UK race report: ‘Black Lives have never had it so good’
IN THE PRESS – We look at the backlash to a report on race in the UK which found no institutional racism. The Guardian’s blunt response: “You cannot be serious”. Meanwhile, French papers react to...
French lawmakers to vote on new coronavirus measures
#France’s prime minister defended the government’s plans to close schools for at least three weeks and to ban domestic travel for a month to slow a resurgence of the #coronavirus. Opposition parties were...
Brazil closes out deadliest month of pandemic by far
#Brazil closed out its deadliest month of the coronavirus #pandemic by far on Wednesday as a surge of #Covid-19 patients overwhelmed hospitals, forcing doctors to make agonizing decisions over whom to give life...
‘The reality of French society is that it is not colour-blind’
The Palais de la Porte Dorée in eastern #Paris was originally built to house the Paris Colonial Exhibition in 1931, but is now home to both a tropical aquarium and the National Museum of the History of Immigration. The...
France’s national stadium gears up for mass Covid-19 vaccinations
The French stadium that hosted World Cup finals in soccer and rugby is taking on a new role in response to the #Covid-19 #pandemic: it is preparing to become a #vaccination centre. The opening of a vaccination centre...