Tag: AFP

  • Mixed-race Brazilians increasingly embrace blackness France 24 2021-11-19 Brazilian philosopher and writer Djamila Ribeiro holds her book “Small Anti-Racist Manual” during an interview with AFP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 8, 2021 NELSON ALMEIDA AFP Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – When Bianca Santana was little, her grandmother used to put her forearm alongside her…

  • On a summer’s day in 1985 a seven-year-old boy sat alone at a crowded bus station in Seoul, sobbing as he waited desperately for his mother to return.

  • Zhan Beleniuk, an Olympic wrestler with Rwandan roots, is seeking to enter Ukraine’s parliament as the first mixed-race MP in a bid to overcome racist attitudes and support the country’s young new leader.

  • Black Miss Japan fights for race revolution’ Agence France Presse (via Yahoo) 2015-05-12 Alastair Himmer, Sport and Lifestyle Correspondent Ariana Miyamoto Tokyo (AFP) – Ariana Miyamoto entered the Miss Universe Japan beauty contest after a mixed-race friend committed suicide. And she endured abuse after winning the crown because of her skin colour. Far from being…