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The racist history of toilets in America
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America invested in sanitation systems throughout the 20th century – but it often left out communities of color, and they're still trying to catch up. This video explains how specific policies caused these inequities,...
Steve Toussaint reveals racist abuse after being cast in House of the Dragon
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Steve Toussaint has revealed he received racist abuse online after he was cast as Corlys Velaryon in the upcoming Game Of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon. The 57-year-old British actor has previously starred in Do...
The racist history of toilets in America
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America invested in sanitation systems throughout the 20th century – but it often left out communities of color, and they're still trying to catch up. This video explains how specific policies caused these inequities,...
Leeds man says ‘racist’ stop and search turned him off joining police
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A black man abandoned his plans of being a police officer after he was subjected to a stop and search that he believes to have been based on racist profiling, by officers from the force he was hoping to join. Hesham S...
Manchester police under fire over ‘deeply racist’ tactics ahead of Caribbean carnival
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Greater Manchester police has been accused of using “deeply racist” tactics after it banned dozens of people from a Caribbean carnival because it suspected them of links to “a street gang”. The force came under fire a...
Met officers accused of sharing racist WhatsApp message about Meghan
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Three Metropolitan police officers have appeared before a misconduct hearing accused of sharing racist and offensive messages, including likening the Duchess of Sussex to a golliwog toy and calling a black boy a monke...
Why Gary Lineker was right to speak out about receiving racist abuse
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Most people who look at Match of the Day host Gary Lineker would have no difficulty recognising that the man is white – and so it’s little surprise that he was mocked after revealing in a podcast interview that he suf...
Sheku Bayoh inquiry: former PC denies telling grandfather he was ‘racist’
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A former police officer involved in the fatal arrest of Sheku Bayoh has vehemently denied that he told his own grandfather he was “a total racist and hated all blacks”. Alan Paton, who has since retired from the force...
Sheku Bayoh inquiry: former PC denies telling grandfather he was ‘racist’
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A former police officer involved in the fatal arrest of Sheku Bayoh has vehemently denied that he told his own grandfather he was “a total racist and hated all blacks”. Alan Paton, who has since retired from the force...
Teenager brings complaint against Met police over alleged racist stereotyping
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A black teenager who claims he has been treated as a gang member by police rather than as a victim of county lines grooming is bringing what is thought to be the first complaint of its kind against the Metropolitan po...
British policing is institutionally racist. Until we admit it we’ll never win back trust
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I write this not as a 30-year serving police officer, an assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police service, a board member of the race and policing action plan group, or the chief constables’ non-executive dir...
Office for Students chair speaks at same event as denounced racist
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Ministers are facing calls to investigate the chair of England’s university regulator about his participation in a conference for the Republican party, which platformed a notorious racist and antisemite. Labour and th...
‘I’m not afraid’: after Buffalo racist attack, Black residents remain unbowed by terror
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Less than an hour after the city of Buffalo, New York, took a 123-second pause on Saturday to memorialize the victims of the terrorist attack that shook the city a week ago, June Bloomfield held her own moment of sile...
Bristol police reclassify paddle attack by white woman on black boy as racist
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Police in Bristol are treating an incident in which a white woman hit a 12-year-old black boy on the forehead with paddle as racially motivated after initially deciding not to prosecute. A review, overseen by a senior...
Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing reveals racist fears of Republicans
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“Black Girl Magic” is on full display in the supreme court confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Republicans are apoplectic. The juxtaposition of Jackson’s calm, confident, professionalism with the...
Greta Thunberg condemns ‘racist’ decision to let UK firm mine on Sami land
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Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg denounced as “racist” and “colonial” the decision by the Swedish government on Tuesday to allow a British company to dig an open-cast iron ore mine on land belonging to the indi...