On Friday September 10, Channel 4 will be holding a ‘black takeover’ day. From 6am, all of the channel’s presenters will be black: ‘The Big Breakfast’ will be brought back with black hosts, all the newsreaders will be black, teen soap ‘Hollyoaks’ will have an all-black cast, all of the …
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“Concerned by a history of anti-Semitic remarks made at the U.N. conference on racism, known as the Durban conference, the President of the Republic has decided that France will not participate in the follow-up conference to be held this year,” the statement from his office read. France is the latest …
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“In math, let’s stick with math,” Ford told reporters on Thursday, a day after Canadian media outlets reported that language about racism and colonialism no longer appeared in an explanation of the curriculum on the provincial government’s website. “Other social issues, let’s talk about it, there’s no doubt, but let’s …
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Italy beat England 3-2 in a nail-biting penalty shootout on Sunday night, winning the UEFA European Championships for the first time since 1968. However, while Italians erupted in celebration, some dismayed England fans turned their anger on their team’s three black players who missed their penalty kicks. Much has been written …
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Mel Gibson, the movie star and Academy Award-winning director, has long been a lightning rod for his problematic behavior and beliefs. But, over the weekend, he finally crossed the line and committed the most egregious of mortal sins in the New Hollywood: he saluted Donald Trump. For those of you …
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Though a continent-wide affair, Euro 2020 was in essence England’s first home tournament in 25 years. Save for the quarter-final, a 4-0 rout of Ukraine in Rome, England played every one of their other six games at Wembley stadium. Conceding just two goals, neither of which were in open play, …
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Riding on a wave of the “fiery but mostly peaceful protests” that accompanied the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer, students in the US public school system are about to receive a noxious dose of what critics call “state-sanctioned racism” mixed into their regular curriculum. …
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Writing on Telegram, Maria Zakharova criticized France’s foreign minister, Clément Beaune, who told TV channel France 2 on Thursday that those who were inoculated with Russian or Chinese vaccines should be shut out of the EU. “Unacceptable statements,” she said. “It is a hybrid of racism, imperial hegemony, and neo-Nazism: …
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The restaurant, which specializes in turkey legs, published its new dress code on Friday to heavy criticism online. The dress code included bans on cleavage, exposed thighs and buttocks, swimwear, sports bras, tank tops, ripped jeans, clothes with “offensive graphics,” various hats including “bonnets, du rags” and bandanas, and “excessively …
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Appearing on CNN’s ‘New Day’ on Tuesday, Granholm was asked if climate change, including “extraordinary tides,” could be behind the recent building collapse in Surfside, Florida. “Obviously, we don’t know fully, but we do know that the seas are rising,” Granholm immediately took the bait. “We know that we are …
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