Last Sunday’s BAFTA Award show should have been about triumph for actors like Wunmi Mosaku, Ryan Coogler and others. Instead, it left many feeling angry, hurt and, once again, profoundly let down.
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UK: TfL Facebook Ad Banned Over Negative Stereotype About Blackmen
A Transport for London (TfL) ad featuring a black teenage boy verbally harassing a white girl has been banned for “perpetuating the negative racial stereotype about black men as perpetrators of threatening behaviour”.
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UK: Met Police To Change Stop & Search Tactics With London’s Black Community
In its effort to rebuild trust with London’s black community, the Met police have initiated plans to rebuild trust after admitting to “let downs” over several years.
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UK: Politician’s Wife Arrested For Racially Inciting Post On X
The wife of a Tory councillor has been arrested for inciting racial hatred after calling for hotels housing migrants to be burnt to the ground.
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LIFE ENDING REBUKE: Outrage As Video Of Cop Shooting Black Woman Dead In Her Home
A new bodycam video released by Illinois police shows the final moments of a woman who called the police over a suspected intruder before she was shot dead inside her home by the police she summoned.
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UK: FIFA Investigates Enzo Fernandez’s Racist Video Shared On Social Media
Chelsea FC and FIFA have both launched investigations after midfielder Enzo Fernandez posted a video which his teammate Wesley Fofana described as “uninhibited racism”.
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American Airline Suspends Staff After Black Passengers Were Kicked Off Flight
American Airlines has placed an unspecified number of employees on leave for their involvement in an incident in which Black passengers were removed from a flight in Phoenix, allegedly over a complaint about body odour.
Three passengers filed a lawsuit against the carrier in May, alleging racial discrimination in the 5 January incident.
SCAPEGOAT: High Schoolers Awarded $1m Following Successful Appeal Of ‘Blackface’ Allegation
Two former California high school students have been awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement after they claimed to have been forced to withdraw from the school in 2020 for wearing acne masks, which was mis interpreted by officials and community members as “blackface.”
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UK: Agency Worker Who Blew £18k On Calls To Nigeria On Work Phone Spared Jail
A Nigerian civil service agency worker who blew £18,000 on calls to a church in Nigeria using a Cabinet Office phone has been spared jail.
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‘’I Can’t Breath’’ – Cuffed Blackman Told Police Before His Death
Ohio authorities have released body camera footage of the arrest of a 53-year-old Black man who died after repeatedly telling police officers “I can’t breathe” as they pinned him to the ground and handcuffed him.
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