George Floyd’s death and the US Black Lives Matter movement sparked extensive media attention. Why aren’t Australian Indigenous deaths in custody getting the same amount of media coverage?
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It took black folk unimaginable resources of creativity, humanity, humour and generosity to detoxify the N-word for their own collective sanity.
We need a revolution in behaviour, not just in rhetoric.
Like the COVID-19 pandemic we’re facing, racism is present in every nook and corner of this planet.
Neither the spurious ‘facts’ about killings of police nor the supposedly ‘colour-blind’ logic of the backlash against Black Lives Matter hold up under scrutiny. Instead, they confirm its point.
Blackbirding is one of many shared Australian histories. Australian South Sea Islanders want to encourage broader community goodwill as we work towards social justice for a forgotten people.
White Americans have been in denial about the fact that police go after Black men and other men of colour. But the research and statistics kept by state and federal agencies show this happens.
Despite the promise of Black Lives Matter, it has not been taken up as a central political movement by Indigenous Australians.
The peace and justice Black Lives Matter seeks require a fundamental transformation of a system that preys on and benefits from Black suffering.
It took only 30 minutes to plunge Toronto’s queer community into civil war. All across North America, Pride parades are debating police brutality.
Top contributors
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Australian South Sea Islanders – Chair, University of Technology Sydney
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Yolanda Moses is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
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Researcher&Lecturer, Universitas Gadjah Mada
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Adelaide University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Professor and Chair of Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
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Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University