What started as a peaceful protest abruptly spiraled into a violent standoff between demonstrators and police on Tuesday. Several hundred protesters, including relatives and friends of a deceased young man identified as Ibrahima Barrie, went to a square in front of the Brussels-North police department to demand answers about the …
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There’s been no denouncing of Kristen Clarke by the likes of MSNBC, woke actor Robert DeNiro or leading anti-racism professor Ibram Kendi. Nor have Democrat politicians or leftists rushed to the defense of Clarke, whom President-elect Biden has announced will head the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. …
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“I have no doubt that some of us who look like me would have been hanging from the railings of the third floor onto the House floor, swinging like fruit, strange fruit,” Johnson (D-Georgia), who is black, told the Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday in an MSNBC interview. US Air …
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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’, the biopic of assassinated Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton, is the type of movie you’d expect to spark controversy. But most wouldn’t expect it to be in the form of criticism that a black man was cast in the lead role. The issue for some …
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‘Soul’, the new film from esteemed animation studio Pixar that premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on Christmas Day, has attracted a lot of attention for featuring the first black protagonist in the company’s history. The film tells the story of Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a good-hearted jazz musician (who …
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman, and is based upon the August Wilson stage play of the same name, premiered this past Friday on Netflix with much fanfare. The buzz surrounding the film, which tells the story of legendary blues singer Ma Rainey and her …
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Ackie, who starred in Hollywood blockbuster ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’, will play iconic singer Whitney Houston in an upcoming biopic, ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’. Director Stella Meghie said she spent months in an “exhaustive search” to find an actress who could “embody” the legendary performer. Meghie expressed …
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Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday passed on Thursday, and the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels celebrated the iconic composer’s in truly modern fashion: by exhibiting artist Terry Adkins’ 2004 work ‘Synapse’ – a video depicting Beethoven’s frumpy visage morphing into that of a young black man with dreadlocks. The …
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“Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building,” Jeremiah Jeffries, the first-grade teacher who chairs the school board’s renaming committee, told the San Francisco Chronicle. …
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Kaufman, a 26-year-old ICU nurse, was gunned down on December 3 as she was driving to St. Thomas West Hospital to work an evening shift. On Friday, Nashville police reported that they had taken into custody a suspect in the murder, 21-year-old Devaunte L. Hill. He had “implicated himself” during …
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