An Anti Racism Summit will take place in The Millennium Hall in Cork City Hall on Friday, May 26. One of the organisers, FIONNUALA O’CONNOR, tells us about her experience of racism and the power of young voices

JOHN SMITH, CEO of Nano Nagle Place, says the upcoming youth-led Anti-Racism Summit at Cork City Hall on May 26 is a bold and courageous initiative and a great exercise in empowerment

TRAVELLERS are still waiting to see the benefits in their lives of their recognition as an ethnic group granted to them in 2017. This is very disappointing to know and it is a problem that needs to be addressed.

The new Miss Cork, Zoe Hendrick, tells EMMA CONNOLLY how she is going to use the platform to talk about some serious issues, from racism to Alzheimer’s

Freelance model Eileen Cardona Lopez, of Venezuela, has lived in countries all over the world, and is now based in Cork. Today she writes a piece for us as part of our Rejecting Racism series.

Check in on your friends of colour, make sure they are OK, that their mental health is alright, says UCC student IMASHA COSTA, Arts and Literature Editor of the University Express, as she contributes to our Rejecting Racism series

The Black Lives Matter movement is making us question our prejudices. It’s important to know their roots. So says Colette Sheridan in her weekly column

 In the latest article in our Rejecting Racism series, KIMBERLY REYES, a Black American poet living in Cork, and a student at UCC, recounts her own experiences of racism and says people need to start listening more and actively working to protect each other

We must reject racism wherever and whenever we see it, says Joe Bosonnet, 18, one of 2,000 members of the Sanctuary Runners, which aims to build bridges with refugees and asylum-seekers

The Young Offenders actor Demi Isaac Oviawe tells CARA O’DOHERTY about her experiences of racism, why she is ‘strong’, not ‘angry’, and how society can help to tackle this scourge

It’s important we listen to other cultures here, says Stevie Grainger, who is heavily involved in projects for the Cork Migrant Centre

In day two of our series, SOPHIE GRAY, who is hoping to go to college in the coming months to do Medicine, says her generation are well-informed and well-placed to call out racism

A spate of unpleasant social media incidents may have raised questions about the younger generation’s attitudes to racism and tolerance. In this week-long series, entitled Rejecting Racism, young Cork people outline their abhorrence of racism, starting with Anna O’Connor, a sixth year student in Cork

We could go on to become like other societies, where discrimination and abuse are common, or we can take a stand and stop such evils. So says Editor of The Echo Maurice Gubbins, as we begin a week-long series, called Rejecting Racism