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Sir Sadiq Khan has said Donald Trump has shown he is "racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic" after the president made comments about him to the United Nations. Speaking to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Trump said London had "a terrible, terrible mayor, and it's been changed, it's been so changed". He added: "Now they want to go to Sharia law." Speaking to BBC London, Sir Sadiq said: "People are wondering what it is about this Muslim mayor who leads a liberal, multi-cultural, progressive and successful city, that means I appear to be living rent-free inside Donald...

Kyrie Irving’s tacit endorsement of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones last month flew under the radar. That is until Kareem Abdul-Jabbar put the Nets star on blast, ripping his “gelatinous ignorance” and accusing him of tarnishing the reputations of all athletes. “Kyrie Irving would be dismissed as a comical buffoon if it weren’t for his influence over young people,” Abdul-Jabbar, 75, wrote on his Substack. Irving is unquestionably a Hall of Fame-level talent and has always been respectful of the basketball icons that came before him. But six-time NBA MVP Abdul-Jabbar — viewed by many other stars as the greatest of...

White feminism is killing the project of equality, argues Rafia Zakaria. She says dominant feminism is based on a set of beliefs and principles that upholds an exclusive system of "whiteness" and bolsters white supremacy — ultimately ignoring the challenges and concerns of women of colour. The lawyer and author of Against White Feminism says she felt compelled to write an alternative history — a story that turns the spotlight off whiteness and on to the intersectional perspectives from brown, Black and Asian women. Zakaria says her book is intended to provide different dimensions of the feminist movement that exists...

Linda Sarsour on Twitter: "There's no such thing as reverse racism." https://twitter.com › lsarsour › status There's no such thing as reverse racism. Racism is bigotry + power. The group that doesn't have power can't be racist. May 25, 2015 https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/603015219380625408?lang=en