A Canadian official and academic specialising in Indigenous health issues has been placed on administrative leave as the scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health and from her university after an investigation that challenged her claims of Indigenous ancestry.
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South Africa cricketer, Quinton de Kock’s future with the Proteas is now in doubt after he refused to take a knee.
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This year’s Black History Month saw the unveiling of a marble and bronze sculptures of custard apple, breadfruit and soursop as a permanent public monument honouring the Windrush generation.
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Descendants of African slaves in the Dutch city of Utrecht can now drop their muddled surnames of their owners, plantations s change their surnames, after the city decided to make the name change procedure free of charge.
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For 24 hours from September 10, Channel 4 will be changing its schedule for its first of its kind ‘Black to Front’ project that showcases some of the nation’s best past and present black talent.
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Former professional football player Colin Kaepernick’s docuseries produced by filmmaker Ava DuVernay will debut on October 29.
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Police have arrested Eleven people for online racist abuse of three Black England football players after following the team’s loss to Italy in the Euro 2020 final in July.
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The Associated Press has promoted Daisy Veerasingham as its new president and CEO making her the first person of colour and first woman to lead the news agency in its 175-year history.
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), a UK charity dedicated to saving lives at sea have come under attack lately for deploying their services in aid of migrants who find themselves in trouble while making the death-defying cross of the English Channel to reach the UK.
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18-year-old gymnast Costa Rican gymnast, Luciana Alvarado succeeded in finding a loophole around the IOC political protest policy by ending her floor exercise routine at the Tokyo Olympics with a Black Lives Matter tribute.
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