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[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/09/systemic-racism-economic-progress/ by IMF Blog 16/9/20 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | [https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/09/systemic-racism-economic-progress/ by IMF Blog 16/9/20 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | ||
As protests spread worldwide, many began to shift focus from solidarity with Black Americans to racial injustice within their own countries. Adama Traoré. João Pedro Matos Pinto. David Dungay, Jr. Different names from different countries, but still victims whose deaths have forced reexamination of the global presence of systemic racism and sent demonstrators into the streets to demand better. | As protests spread worldwide, many began to shift focus from solidarity with Black Americans to racial injustice within their own countries. Adama Traoré. João Pedro Matos Pinto. David Dungay, Jr. Different names from different countries, but still victims whose deaths have forced reexamination of the global presence of systemic racism and sent demonstrators into the streets to demand better. | ||
=====Maud Newton couldn't ignore her family's racist history. So she published it===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/2022/03/29/1089533698/maud-newton-couldnt-ignore-her-familys-racist-history-so-she-published-it by Ari Shapiro, Lauren Hodges, Justine Kenin 29/3/22 npr] | |||
Everyone's family tree has some gnarled branches. In the author Maud Newton's past, there are ancestors who committed violence, extremism, racism and worse. Rather than shove that inheritance under the bed in a locked box, she excavates it in her new memoir, "Ancestor Trouble." | |||
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