The World Conference against Racism opens in Durban

Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic cauldron at the Sydney Games' opening ceremony. Her central role placed Indigenous achievement and presence before a global audience. The ceremony...

A Zapatista delegation reached Mexico City's Zócalo during the March of the Colour of the Earth. The journey brought Indigenous demands for recognition and rights from communities into the national...

Comandanta Esther addressed legislators in Mexico's Congress on behalf of the EZLN. She called for constitutional recognition of Indigenous rights and described the compounded exclusion experienced by...

Police officer Stephen Roach shot and killed 19-year-old Timothy Thomas in Cincinnati. The death was followed by protests and unrest amid longstanding concerns about the treatment of Black...

France promulgated the law associated with Christiane Taubira recognizing specified historical slave trades and slavery as crimes against humanity. The law also addressed their place in teaching and...

The Durban conference adopted a declaration and programme of action against racism. The declaration recognized slavery and the slave trade as crimes against humanity and acknowledged colonialism's...

A gunman killed Sikh business owner Balbir Singh Sodhi outside his gas station in Mesa, Arizona, claiming retaliation for the September 11 attacks. His murder exposed how racialized suspicion could...

President George W. Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act, expanding investigative and immigration-related security powers. Its enactment is an institutional context for studying the post-9/11 struggle over...

Coordinated attacks against Muslims began across towns and cities in Gujarat after the Godhra train burning. Human Rights Watch documented killings, displacement and allegations of official...

Cincinnati entered agreements to change policing after litigation and community mobilization over discrimination and excessive force. The federal agreement addressed force, supervision and...