Focal Point

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Entanglements and continuities of racism

The focus deals with the global #BlackLivesMatter movement as well as structural and institutional racism from a European and German perspective. Here you find the contributions in English.

Racism and the Infrastructure of Injustice - in the United States and Europe

Editorial

The murder of George Floyd amidst of a global pandemic has triggered a global conversation among the Black diaspora and its progressive allies. In the editorial for our #BlackLivesMatter focus, award-winning journalist Gary Younge analyses the current debates in the U.S. and in Europe.

By Gary Younge

This selective amnesia around race leads ineluctably to a deeply flawed sense of superiority around racism among many white Europeans with regard to the U.S. that stems from a woefully incomplete and toxically nostalgic misunderstanding of their own history.

Gary Younge

Two women at Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol, 2016

Focal Point

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Entanglements and continuities of racism

Racism and the Infrastructure of Injustice - in the United States and Europe

The Seeds of Abolition

Black Lives Matter and British Policing

“Trump’s election defeat won’t end structural racism”