PoliticsWorld

French police charged over black man's beating

Four French police officers were charged Monday over the beating and racial abuse of a black music producer, a case that has outraged France and ramped up pressure on the government to give ground on a controversial security bill The assault of Michel Zecler &#8212…
LifestyleWorld

After George Floyd's death, magazine covers with blacks fire

Survey shows that in 2020 more than in the previous 90 years added up In the US, magazine covers have already brought more blacks in 2020 than in all of the previous 90 years, added up. The data was collected by the Magazine Innovation Center, at the University of…
Politics

Trump ends anti-racism training in federal government: White House

US President Donald Trump has ordered government agencies to end employee training sessions on fighting racism because they amount to “un-American propaganda,” the White House said on Friday. The order comes as Trump works to appeal to his white, blue-collar…
Editorial

Diversity is on us

This week that is about to end has been intense in several aspects. Yesterday, PLATAFORMA published a story about racism that marked me. It’s not that I didn’t know what racism is. I know and even felt it in my skin, even though it is what many people call…
Ferreira Fernandes

The fall of statues epidemic

If the winners are the ones who write the history, calculate what happens to the statues! These being songs of glory in stone, how can they represent those who lose? The secessionist generals lost the American Civil War (1861-1865), by what title did they, losers, want to be…
SocietyWorld

"We are black and we already know these stories"

In the week of George Floyd’s funeral, killed by a policeman on May 25 in Minneapolis, United States, the PLATFORM was to feel the pulse of the feeling of everything that happened after the images that shocked the world. Whether through ignorance or pure malice, racism…