‘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...
Trump isn’t out there with a gun, but he’s enabled this war against black people
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Last weekend, just as I finished a live performance in California of Four Questions, the Grammy award-winning jazz collaboration for which I provided spoken words, word reached me about the racist killing of 10 people...
Francia: Black historian Pap Ndiaye appointed as education minister
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Pap Ndiaye, the renowned Black French historian and expert on US minority rights, has been appointed education minister for the start of Emmanuel Macron’s second term, as the country faces persistent social inequaliti...
Police chiefs to apologise for ‘racism, discrimination and bias’ in race plan
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Police chiefs will declare they are “ashamed” about racism remaining in law enforcement, and apologise for the “discrimination and bias” still plaguing forces in a new race plan launching next week. The plan from Nati...
‘Top of the world’: Black climbing team makes history as first to scale Mount Everest
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The first all-Black climbing group to reach the summit of Mount Everest was recovering back at the bottom of the mountain on Thursday and celebrating a journey to the “top of the world”. Seven members of the US-led te...
Met police chiefs decided not to infiltrate far-right groups in 70s, hears inquiry
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Police leaders took a high-level policy decision not to place undercover officers in far-right groups at a time when fascists were intimidating and attacking ethnic minority communities in the 1970s, an inquiry has he...
Don’t let people off if they steal food in desperation, minister tells police
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The policing minister, Kit Malthouse, has disputed the suggestion of the chief inspector of constabulary, Andy Cooke, that the cost of living crisis will trigger an increase in crime, branding it “old-fashioned” think...
Black students frustrated at lack of action on university racism, I parlamentari hanno detto
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Academics and student leaders have told MPs of their frustration at the denial of and the lack of practical action to tackle the “ingrained institutional racism” experienced by black students and staff on university c...