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Church of England needs to review statues over slavery, archbishop claims
The Church of England must review statues and monuments in its places of worship to ensure that any with links to slavery are removed or...
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Thailand and Myanmar: burned seized drugs worth $2 billion
Thailand and Myanmar destroyed 25 tonnes of illicit drugs collectively worth more than $2 billion on Friday. However, it has been...
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Racial comments over World Bank staff nominee
The association representing the World Bank staff on Wednesday asked Brazil’s executive director nomination of Abraham Weintraub to be...
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Black Americans hospitalized at four times the rate of whites for COVID-19
Black Americans enrolled in Medicare were around four times as likely as their white counterparts to be hospitalized for the current...
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L'Oreal to drop words such as 'whitening' from skin products
L’Oreal, the world’s biggest cosmetics company, will remove words referencing “white”, “fair” and “light” from its skin-evening products,...
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Formula One distances itself from racist comments
Formula One on Friday distanced itself from comments by the sport’s former CEO Bernie Ecclestone that Black people were often more racist...
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Who are they? People of colour whose deaths inspired waves of U.S. protests
The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last month has spawned a wave of protests and national soul-searching over...
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Knee on Black woman's neck: Fired Miami Gardens police officer
A former Miami Gardens police officer was charged on Thursday with battery and misconduct after a video surfaced on the internet showing...
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