Paris mayor demands black feminist festival that 'prohibits' white people be banned

Here's an easy-to-read article

Paris mayor demands black feminist festival that 'prohibits' white people be banned

to ban = to prohibit, to interdict, to demand = to insist

And here's the counterpoint:

Why there’s nothing racist about black-only spaces

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