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US protests after police shooting of black man in Louisiana
Protests have taken place in the US state of Louisiana after a video emerged appearing to show two white police officers holding down and shooting dead a black man. The incident took place in the state capital, Baton Rouge, on Tuesday after reports of a man threatening people with a gun outside a shop. A post mortem examination...
‘Lefties’ reluctance to place black kids with white families forced youngsters into crime
THE OBSESSION with matching black orphans with families of the same race left the children "languishing in care", according to a equalities' champion Trevor Phillips. In a hard hitting interview on for Radio Four programme, Why I Changed My Mind, Trevor Phillips talked about his deep regret in not confronting the...
Nearly 75 Percent of People Shot by Chicago Police are Black, Report Says
A task force is recommending that the Chicago Police Department acknowledge its history of racism after a report found that 74 percent of people shot by police between 2008 and 2015 were black. The Police Accountability Task Force released a report Wednesday, detailing "racist or biased policing" of the CPD at an...
Undercover Md. officer viewed as threat, ‘deliberately’ shot
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — A suburban Washington, D.C., police officer who died in an unprovoked shootout Sunday was deliberately shot by another officer who did not know him and perceived him to be a threat, police said Wednesday. Prince George's County Police Officer Jacai Colson was in plain clothes during the shootout...
Obama: Beauty pressures have ‘always been harder’ on black women
Last month, President Barack Obama and ballerina Misty Copeland sat down with TIME to discuss their rise in their respective fields, the country’s persisting racial discord and the grassroots movements looking to radically change the racial climate. Among the many highlights from TIME's transcript of that dialogue?...
Magic is colorblind: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ casts a black Hermione
The cast that will portray the middle-aged versions of the heroes of Hogwarts in the much-anticipated "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" musical have been announced, and it comes with a small twist: a black Hermione Noma Dumezweni, 45, has been cast as the heroine, according to The Daily Mail, and in the play is...