US federal agents reverted to using tear gas in an attempt to disperse a large crowd of protesters outside federal court in the city of Portland, Oregon, after several fireworks were fired at the building during a Black Lives Matter rally. Thousands of people gathered Friday night on the streets …
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John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and a veteran member of the United States House of Representatives, died Friday. Lewis, a member of Congress from Atlanta who announced in December that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, was 80 years old. “He loved this country so much that …
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London police suspended an officer pending an investigation after images of him kneeling by the side of the head and neck of a black suspect appeared. Images from the arrest in North London on Thursday show two officers holding the handcuffed man. At the beginning of the clip, one of …
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President Donald Trump has downplayed police violence against blacks in the United States, saying that “more white people” are killed by police officers. During a CBS News interview that aired on Tuesday, the Republican president was asked why blacks were still dying at the hands of law enforcement. “And so …
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British historian and television presenter David Starkey gave up his honorary scholarship at a university at Cambridge University after he was outraged by his comments about blacks and whether slavery should be considered genocide. Starkey said in an interview for a YouTube show posted online on Tuesday: “Slavery was not …
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