Yonas Biru

When it comes to racial discrimination in the World Bank, Phyllis Muhammad, former Staff Counselor, has seen it all. She noted recently that: The level of racial injustice that we are seeing under Kim “would not have persisted during Wolfensohn’s time.

In 2013, Elaine Colville, a British national and former World Bank staff wrote a revealing article titled "US and EU ignore plight of blacks at World Bank." The article lamented that with European and North American countries "controlling the overwhelming majority of the voting rights of the Worl

Imagine the third largest employer in the nation's capital characterizing one of its African employees as an animal in an official report. His lawyer, Peter C. Hansen, demanded the "shameful" report that contained "the most galling... overtly racist...