racism
French actor Omar Sy, the star of the hit Netflix series Lupin and recently appointed jury member at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has said France must rebuild a sense of the collective if it is to counter the far-right. Promoting his new book "Viens, on se parle", written with Elsa Vigoureux, Sy said the notions of justice, equality and fraternity had been shaken, and it was hard to be a Black person in France. The actor, 46, who grew up in the banlieue outside Paris with his parents from Mauritania and Senegal, cited the controversy surrounding the possible participation of Aya Nakamura,...
Euronews (English)
“I defy you, stars" wrote The Bard in "Romeo and Juliet." Replace “stars” with “racists”, and you’ve got some idea where the producers of the forthcoming West End production of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy are at. The new production, billed as “a pulsating new vision of Shakespeare’s immortal tale of wordsmiths, rhymers, lovers and fighters,” has been the target of racist abuse - aimed at an unnamed cast member. The show’s full cast was announced last week, and upon revealing the players, the Jamie Lloyd Company said there had been a “barrage of deplorable racial abuse directed towards a mem...
Euronews (English)
French-Malian popstar Aya Nakamura has released a single responding to the racist abuse she was subjected to when it was suggested she’d perform at the Paris Summer Olympics opening ceremony. New single ‘Doggy’ hits back at the criticism of the 28-year-old singer that came after reports suggested French President Emmanuel Macron wanted her to perform an Edith Piaf song at the ceremony. “I have no enemies myself, they're the ones hating on me; Lots of enemies but I don't even know them,” the lyrics to the song go before jumping into the chorus: “You want it doggy, doggy, doggy, doggy, doggy, do...
Euronews (English)
Aya Nakamura has not yet been confirmed to sing at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, but reports that French President Emmanuelle Macron has sounded her out to headline the event have sparked a racism row in the country. The possibility that the French-Malian pop singer might perform from the repertoire of national treasure Edith Piaf has caused indignation among some far-right supporters. Nakamura is the most listened-to French artist in the world and the only woman to feature in the country’s top 20 bestselling albums of 2023. But the Olympics speculation has made her the target of ...
Euronews (English)
What should be done about offensive art? It's a complex question that continues to plague museum directors and society at large, as works seen to perpetuate racism or celebrate the horrors of colonialism are rallied against, with increasing calls for censorship. In a unique response, London's Tate Britain is displaying a counter film by British artist Keith Piper alongside a controversial Rex Whistler mural, 'The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meat', which previously decorated the walls of the gallery's restaurant before being closed to the public in 2020 due to its racist imagery. Scotland's c...
Euronews (English)
The dialect of the language you speak decides what artificial intelligence (AI) will say about your character, your employability, and whether you are a criminal. That’s the latest result from a Cornell University pre-print study into the "covert racism" of large language models (LLM), a deep learning algorithm that’s used to summarise and predict human-sounding texts. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, Meta’s LLaMA2, and French Mistral 7B are all examples of large language models. Euronews Next reached out to OpenAI and Meta for comment. Google’s CEO admits Gemini AI model’s responses showed ‘bias’ ...
Euronews (English)
American playwright Jeremy O. Harris has been criticised by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of the West End debut of ‘Slave Play’. ‘Slave Play’ is due to run at the prestigious Noel Coward Theatre in London where it will host two “Black Out” performances in its three-month run from 29 June. The Black Out performances will be solely aimed at an “all-Black-identifying audience”. Jeremy O. Harris’s play was a huge hit when it came to Broadway in 2018. The then-29-year-old playwright’s piece is an examination of sexual politics in interracial relationships from a cotton plantation in the Anteb...
Euronews (English)
A group of Russian expats who organised a “white party” in Sri Lanka apologised for the event after sparking a huge backlash online. The party, whose description contained a line saying “Face Control: White”, was supposed to be held on Saturday at the Sarayka Lounge, a Russian-run nightclub in the resort town of Unawatuna. But the event was cancelled after its poster started circulating online, sparking outrage among those who interpreted the party’s dress code as meaning that non-white people would not be allowed in. The organisers apologised on Instagram for what they called a misunderstandi...
Euronews (English)
Elbow is a film based on a book of the same name by Fatma Aydemir. It opens with beautiful cinematography introducing the protagonist Hazal in a series of reflections in shop windows in Berlin. The Turkish-German is just a few days away from turning 18. We get to know her through her unsuccessful search for an apprenticeship, as she encounters rejections and being fobbed off. In between, she’s accused of shoplifting make up in a drugs store. Whether she’s guilty or not is unclear, but what is evident is the casual and systematic racism she endures. It’s subtly presented however as part of the ...
Euronews (English)
Written and directed by Ava DuVernay (When They See Us, 13th), Origin is an adaptation of nonfiction book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents". It chronicles the life of Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis), the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, as she embarks on a writer’s journey leading to the writing of her 2020 bestseller. The film opens with the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, and sees Wilkerson reluctantly drawn in by the case – especially when her mother Ruby (Emily Yancy) states that no matter how tragic the death of the young Black man is, he sho...
Euronews (English)
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら