Bally Bagayoko, the new hard-left mayor of the northern Paris suburb, filed a complaint for 'public insults' of a racist nature on Thursday, after having been targeted by racist insults on the CNews channel since being elected. He has called for a large anti-racist rally to be held in his city on Saturday.

EDITORIAL. Several recently elected mayors from immigrant backgrounds, such as Bally Bagayoko of Saint-Denis, have become targets of xenophobic attacks from the far right and…

OP-ED. Sociologist Stéphane Beaud and historian Gérard Noiriel analyze why people who have experienced racism – such as Bally Bagayoko, Saint-Denis's new mayor – may reject the…