Blog: The importance of Black people standing up for their rights

The United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is held each year on the anniversary of the day the police opened fire and killed 69 people and injured 180 others at a peaceful demonstration against the South African apartheid ‘pass laws’ at the now infamous Sharpeville massacre in 1960.
At its general assembly in 1979, the UN agreed that each member state should organise a week of activities every year, to bring focus to the fight against