by Alexandra Wells | 6 Feb 2017 | Donald Trump, Identity, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, United States, Women's rights
Donald Trump tapped into racism to win the White House. But I assert my identity — Middle Eastern, Jewish, female — and will fight to succeed despite prejudice. Hannah Shraim, 17, affixes her hijab, Germantown, Maryland, U.S., 13 May 2016.(AP...
by News Decoder | 28 Nov 2015 | Americas, United States
Some students at Princeton University in the United States want the name of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president who died in 1924, to be removed from the university’s programs and buildings because of his racist views. The debate has reached the national...
by News Decoder | 31 Aug 2015 | Americas, Decoders, Human Rights, United States
More than a century after the end of the U.S. Civil War, race relations remain a problem, highlighted by the killing of black men by white policemen. Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the Selma voting rights march in Montgomery, Alabama, 17 March 1965. (AP Photo) This...