A T-shirt could cost this firefighter his job. A judge has recommended the FDNY sack Brooklyn firefighter Thomas Buttaro for wearing anti-affirmative-action T-shirts to work, creating what she called a hostile work environment. “The FDNY is a para-military organization and may restrict a uniformed member’s appearance so long as the restrictions are rationally related to
Read more: New York fireman to lose his job for wearing a “Merit matters” T-shirt
People love to tell me that they often forget that I’m black. They say this with a sort of “a-ha!” look on their faces, as if their dawning ability to see my blackness was a gift to us both. When I point out that their eyesight had never left them, that my skin has never
Read more: Even if you don’t see race, you’re still racist – Guardian columnist
In his new book titled “Dangerous Allies,” Malcolm Fraser, the former prime minister of Australia worries that the Canberra’s dependence on the United States will eventually bring the nation into a direct conflict with China. His words echo those of Georgetown University professor Amitai Etzioni in and article he wrote for the Diplomat on Jan.
A black mother from Soweto was busy looting say witnesses when her baby – who was strapped to her chest – died. She said she did not notice there was anything wrong with him until neighbours alerted her. The black mother, Zanele Majozi, 19, was allegedly running out of a vandalised shop in Kagiso with
Read more: Looting black mother kills infant by falling on him
Kiev “sees no alternative” to the Minsk ceasefire accords, President Petro Poroshenko said. However, the Ukrainian military is building up troops in the east to conduct “an adequate response” to the militia advancement, the Defense Ministry stated. The violence in eastern Ukraine escalated recently with the ceasefire deal penned in Minsk last year finally shattering.
Read more: Ukraine military ‘to boost forces in the east’ as Mariupol airport falls to rebels
WINNIPEG—The mayor of Manitoba’s capital tearfully promised Thursday to fight racism and intolerance after his city was branded Canada’s most racist by a national magazine. Brian Bowman stood surrounded by dozens of aboriginal and community leaders and admitted that Winnipeg has a problem with racism. The city’s first Métis mayor broke down in tears as
Read more: ‘Racism exists across Canada and is part of the human condition’
Exposed nipples? Naked bottoms? Bare breasts? The insouciant editors who sit in the front row of fashion shows have seen the lot at womenswear shows – and will barely raise an eyebrow. But the flesh on show at Rick Owens’ menswear show in Paris on Thursday surprised even them. In a highly unusual move, the
Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA. Or where a department store knows from your buying habits that you’re pregnant even before your family does. That is the terrifying dystopian world portrayed by a group of Harvard professors at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, where the
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted a totally invasive Internet. At the end of a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where his comments were webcast, he was asked for his prediction on the future of the web. “I will answer very simply that the Internet will disappear,” Schmidt said
He adopted the religion of peace and forthwith proceeded to shatter the peace of his countrymen. In the waning months of 2014, Quebecker Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot Cpl. Nathan Cirillo in the back, at Canada’s National War Memorial in Ottawa. Zehaf-Bibeau then stormed Parliament, but was dispatched by a sergeant-at-arms before he could do further harm.
Read more: A modest libertarian proposal: keep Jihadis OUT, not IN
The two people nominated by Gov. Greg Abbott to join the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System support affirmative action. On Thursday, Abbott nominated Sara Martinez Tucker of Laredo, head of an education nonprofit and a former U.S. undersecretary of education, as well as David Beck, a prominent Houston attorney and a
Read more: Texas Rep governor nominated two pro-affirmative action regents at UT
A Dutch woman who was a corporal in the Dutch army named Yvette is about to lose her job due to her relationship with a Turk, Mehmet. “I could not believe I got into trouble because I was in love,” Yvette said. She met Mehmet, who worked as a bartender in the western tourist town
Read more: Dutch soldier loses job due to relationship with Turk
In Pegida’s first ever press conference in Dresden on Monday, Lutz Bachmann insisted that the group was not racist, and distanced themselves from footage during a lively television debate showing Pegida demonstrators delivering racist remarks. Bachmann has been most keen to stress his Muslim credentials, showing photographs on his Facebook site of his Turkish best
Nearly one million Muslims rallied in Grozny, Chechnya against the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. There are only 1.3 million people in all of Chechnya. They’re more upset with the magazine than they are with the killer Kouachi brothers. Voice of America reported: Hundreds of thousands of people in the Russian Muslim region of Chechnya gathered
Read more: 800 000 rally against Charlie Hebdo in a country of 1.3 million
