Despite diversity programs, academia remains an elite, white institution that fosters an environment in which people of color’s voices are silenced. This not only impacts negatively on their learning experience but also deprives wider society of fresh, important and innovative ideas, writes Toi S.

Recent discourse suggests gentrification is solely about economics. But the concept of ‘Black gentrification’  is merely a tool to use the anxiety of the Black middle class to distract attention from white and/or non-Black culpability in Black displacement and dispossession, writes Kenyon Farrow.

Mental illness, as we are told by public awareness campaigns, is non-discriminatory. It affects individuals of all different classes and creeds. This is corroborated with media reports of celebrities suffering with anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder as well as high rates of mental illness among students at prestigious universities and people in the corporate world. How does privilege affect people’s experiences of suffering? Erin Stewart reports.

Western media and the West as a whole is rapidly losing interest in the situation of Afghan women. And hardly anyone is taking notice, writes Judy Mandelbaum.

With Representative Peter King's Muslim radicalization hearings opening recently and with anti-Muslim sentiment reaching a fever pitch in the United States, it’s worth looking across the Atlantic and see how other Western societies are dealing with religion and ethnicity. The results should sound alarm bells, writes Alan Nothnagle.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons in the US has created secret experimental units, known as Communications Management Units for second-tier terrorism inmates who were almost all Arab and Muslim Americans. Only the link to terrorism can be quite tenuous, writes Alia Malek.