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May-June 2020, Issue 7
Black Lives Matter
The Revolt
COVID-19: Democracy in Peril
Aaron Winter, Aidan McGarry, Anna Triandafyllidou, Ojeaku Nwabuzo
How the pandemic and the lockdown challenge racial equality and, ultimately, democracy. By Aaron Winter. Watch Now
COVID 19 has laid bare structural inequalities impacting on ethnic minorities and migrants, acutely so for Roma communities, says Aidan McGarry. Watch Now
Anna Triandafyllidou’s inquisitive eye falls on the precarity of the so-called ‘essential’ migrant worker. Watch Now
The European Network Against Racism explains the role of social precarity and structural racism. By Ojeaku Nwabuzo. Watch Now
United States: Why Black America?
Jean Beaman
Coronavirus is not the great equalizer many have claimed. Rather, it has only exacerbated existing racial and ethnic inequalities in the United States, as well as worldwide.
Read & Watch moreWhose Immunity? SURVEILLANCE in Time of Pandemics
Nitzan Lebovic
The state of emergency has solidified inequalities, inflicted a double whammy to ethnic minorities, and instituted a surveillance model that cannot be stopped.
Read & Watch moreReporting Ethnic Minorities’ Deadly Toll
Venise Wagner & Sally Lerhman
International media have reported on the racial disparities of the Covid-19 pandemic. But much of this coverage has been problematic, suggesting that the culpability lies with minorities themselves.
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We Remember. We Act.
Richard Benjamin
The recent toppling of statues of slavers and slavery enablers has led some UK intellectuals and political leaders to dramatically call for the creation of a new museum of transatlantic slavery to help with mass education around the subject, and fight contemporary racism. Yet, The International Slavery Museum has existed since 2007, as its director explains exclusively for MONITOR.
Read & Watch moreTIME & SPACE For Poetry: Her Lost Language
Jenny Mitchell
London-based award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell shines a light on Black English men and women. With delicate poignancy, Mitchell reminds us of their daily fight for recognition and equality. Poems read for MONITOR by Marianna Athime Corsoni, Claudia Zylbersztajn, and the author herself.
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