Racism: Last News

Nadiya Hussain admitted she’s too scared to call out racism in an industry that ‘isn’t her world’.The Great British Bake Off winner said she has been experiencing more racism in the last five years than in her entire life and fears work will disappear if she complains.The 35-year-old told Radio Times magazine she had encountered ‘racism throughout my life…‘I now work in an industry that’s very much middle-aged, Caucasian, male, and there I am – a five foot one Muslim brown girl, and it’s not my world.’She continued: ‘We have to question why there aren’t more people of colour working in television, publishing, the hospitality industry.‘When I did this show I looked around and I thought, “Wow, there’s literally just me and the home economist,

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Race in America: A Movement Not a Moment. During the conversation, Garcelle Beauvais of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills recalled an instance in which a stranger had mistaken her for a nanny.“She said something to me in Spanish and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t speak Spanish,’ and she said, ‘You’d make more money if you spoke Spanish,'” Beauvais revealed.

Ryan Reynolds will always deeply regret staging his 2012 wedding on a former slave plantation.The Deadpool star and Blake Lively exchanged vows at Boone Hall in South Carolina and he now wishes the couple had put more thought into the site of the nuptials.“It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,” Reynolds told Fast Company. “It’s impossible to reconcile.“What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest.

Rochelle Humes has said she would scrub her legs until they were red to try to get her skin off after she was subjected to racism as a child.

There are few words more painful or so deeply ingrained in the racism that Black people have suffered for centuries than the n-word. It’s filthy, disgusting and, if there ever were a rulebook on what racist comments not to say, the n-word would probably be number one. Surely, even most children know it’s a word you just don’t say. So how on Earth did a white adult at BBC News – one of the largest news corporations on the planet – think it was acceptable to use this dirty, derogatory word in the middle of a Wednesday morning in 2020? In a segment, presenter Fiona Lamdin discussed a racially-motivated attack on a Black man. ‘Just to warn you, you’re about to hear highly offensive language,’ she said in a voiceover.

What's In My Glass?, she opened up about a very real fear felt by Black Americans. The comedian got teary while talking about the idea of motherhood and what that means as a Black person. "I'm a little older now [Haddish is 40] and people are always asking when I'm gonna have some babies," she .

A gay white adult performer has been caught on video yelling the N-word at a black sanitation worker in New York and then allegedly assaulting a pedestrian who was filming him.A video of the racist encounter was posted on by NYC City council candidate Anthony Beckford on July 20, 2020. A follow-up post identified the man shouting the racist abuse as Joseph O’Brian who goes by the screen name of Dustin Gold in films produced by Las Vegas based Helix Studios.Racist on the Upper East Side.

Canadian rapper Nav opened up on the ‘crazy’ racism he endures in the music industry, discussing ‘an element of a race wall.’

The cartoon, which ran on UPN from 1999 to 2000, was based on a comic strip by the same name and featured a pessimistic office worker as the title character.“I lost my TV show for being white when UPN decided it would focus on an African-American audience,” Adams wrote on Twitter. “That was the third job I lost for being white.

Rappers Young T and Bugsey are calling for tensions to ease between police forces and the black community in the UK, admitting both parties are ‘afraid’. The Don’t Rush hitmakers are proud of the positives that are emerging from the Black Lives Matter protests, which were sparked around the world following the death of George Floyd in America last month. It has inspired a conversation about police brutality in the UK, which isn’t as publicised as the US, and what can be done to improve relations between the police and the black community, particularly young black men who are statistically most likely to be stopped and searched. Bugsey, real name Doyin Julius, told Metro.co.uk: ‘It might sound old school but I feel like one of the ways we

a YouTube video titled “The Universe Is Watching Us,” Wonder didn’t hold back when it came to his feelings on racism and the failings of Donald Trump. “It’s a bad day when I can see better than your 2020 vision,” the blind singer-songwriter expressed in the five-minute video message.

racism she experienced growing up, as she encouraged others to educate themselves on the issues being raised today.The TV presenter penned a lengthy essay in Vogue, detailing the horrific racial abuse that she dealt with in her past.‘As a black woman born to Nigerian parents in the UK, the events of recent weeks have been traumatic on a personal level, forcing me to reflect on my own experiences, and dragging up dark memories I had buried,’ she begun, referring to the recent resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement.She then began to describe traumatic memories, such as when she walked into an expensive shop and security were called to ‘keep an eye on the black girl’, and a time when her then 10-year-old brother was illegally detained

Actress Eiza Gonzalez has apologised for wearing blackface while appearing on a telenovela more than a decade ago, stating she was ‘pressured against [her] will’. The 30-year-old actress, who is said to be dating actor Timothee Chalamet, found herself at the centre of a race row when photos of her wearing blackface on the show Lola, Érase Una Vez in 2007, began circulating on social media. Explaining how she came to wear blackface, Eiza said she was unable to speak up for herself as she was underage. In a statement released to Page Six, Eiza said: ‘I am deeply sorry and ashamed about having worn blackface makeup in images circulating. ‘As a 15-year-old child actor on my first job in a Mexican telenovela, I was pressured against my will, and

After a a string of anti-Semitic and racist outbursts made him unemployable for close to a decade, Oscar winner Mel Gibson crawled back to relevance behind the camera in 2016 with Hacksaw Ridge.

Hacksaw Ridge.It seemed time had allowed people to, if not forgive, then forget his troubled past.But in a recent interview with The Sunday Times, actress Winona Ryder recounted her experiences with anti-Semitism within the movie industry and revealed that the Braveheart star once asked her if she was an “oven dodger.”Ryder, who is Jewish, alleges that she was at a party when Gibson made the comment.“We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and we’re all talking and he said to my friend, who’s gay, ‘Oh wait, am I gonna get AIDS?’ And then something came up about Jews, and he said, ‘You’re not an oven dodger, are you?’” Director Mel Gibson arrives for the premiere of “Hacksaw Ridge”

In the wake of the controversy surrounding accusations that his wife, Jessica, tried to “silence a Black woman,” Ben Mulroney has announced he is stepping away from CTV’s flagship entertainment program etalk, which he has co-hosted since 2002.

supports HTML5 videoAlexandra Burke was told to bleach her skin to appear whiter after winning The X Factor.The 31-year-old shot to fame in 2008 when she won the fifth series of The X Factor at the age of 19.And an emotional video, the Bad Boys singer has detailed the racism she has experienced in her career from management, labels and the media.Alexandra told of auditioning for The X Factor’s second series when she was 16, and claimed that after she didn’t make it past judges houses, she was told by an unnamed individual that in a few months, they would sign her. The singer got back in touch to say she was ready to work, but said: ‘The reply and the response I got was “I already have one black artist, I don’t need another”.

yanked it June 9 because of its “racist depictions” in the wake of the killing of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police last month, which led to mass protests worldwide. Now the network is planning to take its time in bringing it back to an audience.“We are being slow and careful, and I think that’s the right response.

Tiffany Haddish admitted it’s “scary to be a black person in America” as she spoke about her experience with police brutality amid global protests against systemic racism.