A Black Lives Matter co-founder and self-professed ‘trained Marxist’ has raised eyebrows by purchasing a $1.4 million Los Angeles home, in a largely white district. Patrisse Cullors, a 37-year-old ‘artist, organizer, and freedom fighter’, has bought a three bedroom, three bathroom house in Topanga Canyon, complete with a separate guest house and expansive back yard,…
New video of George Floyd inside a Minneapolis convenience store moments before his death was played in court today at Derek Chauvin’s murder trial as a witness said that his hands were shaking, he was unable to make conversation and he appeared to be under the influence of drugs.ย Cup Foods clerk Christopher Martin, who…
Unconscious bias training should be scrapped for employees and replaced with more effective practices, urges a landmark review into racial inequality.ย The Race Commission today recommends organisations and firms pull the plug on such sessions because they do not tackle disparities in the workplace. It said the ‘intense soul-searching’ of some employers in the wake…
A man from Indiana has been arrested in connection with a firebomb that was thrown towards a police car while the Portland protests were in full swing last summer.ย Malik Muhammed, 24, was arrested on Friday and charged with attempted aggravated murder, attempted assault in the first degree, attempted murder in the first degree, unlawful…
An โanti-racistโ group calling itself โWhite Lies Matterโ stole a $500,000 stone chair dedicated to Confederate leader Jefferson Davis and claims itย will use the monument as a ‘toilet’ unless a Confederate women’s group hangs a banner outside its headquarters bearing the words of a black militant who killed a state trooper. The Jefferson Davis Memorial…
Jeremy Meeks debuts Black Lives Matter tattoo as he cuts a casual figure in a cream hoodie and khaki joggers while stepping out in Los Angeles By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 08:25, 6 April 2021 | Updated: 09:20, 6 April 2021 He boasts an extensive collection of tattoos.ย And Jeremy Meeks, 37, debuted his…
Ashley Banjo has revealed he received up to 100 abusive tweets every minute following his Black Lives Matter dance routine on Britain’s Got Talent. The dancer, 32, depicted the death of George Floyd alongside his dance troupe Diversity on the ITV show in September and admitted he was warned against the performance. Speaking to The…
British Olympian Tessa Sanderson has revealed she sat down her eight-year-old twins to explain the Black Lives Matter protests because she is aware they may suffer racist abuse in the future. The sportswoman, 65, adopted brother and sister Cassius and Ruby Mae seven years ago when they were four months old and she was 58.ย ย ย …
This last week has shown how difficult it is to have a nuanced discussion on race issues in the UK, especially when you belong to an ethnic minority, WRITES KEMI BADENOCH.ย The Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities was set up last year following the emotional outpouring of Black Lives Matter and evidence that Covid-19…
Derek Chauvin was seen with his hands around George Floyd’s neck in never-before-released footage from the officer’s body camera shown at his murder trial today.ย ย ย The prosecution calledย Lt Jeff Rugel, who runs the Minneapolis Police Department’sย Business Technology Unit, to the stand on Wednesday afternoon to authenticate officers’ body camera footage and other video evidence from…
The Los Angeles specialist Hardcore Gang unit has been disbanded because it is ‘offensive to the community’ in a move branded a ‘suicide pact’ amid rising homicide rates in the city.ย For over four decades the Hardcore Gang Investigation Unit has been tasked with prosecuting the city’s most serious and violent gang-related crimes.ย But the…
KATHARINE BIRBALSINGH Yesterdayโs landmark report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities caused a sensation. Commissioned in the wake of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests last summer, and led by a panel of distinguished experts from a range of fields, it concludes that Britain is a model of a successful multi-ethnic society: a…
The first man to confront police about their treatment of George Floyd on the day of his fatal arrest broke down in tears at Derek Chauvin’s murder trial today as the prosecution played body camera footage of cops wrestling with the handcuffed black man in a squad car.ย Charles McMillian, 61, stepped up to the…
Tensions peaked on the second day of Derek Chauvin’s murder trial on Tuesday as a witness for the prosecution was cross-examined by the defense over his confrontations with cops during George Floyd’s fatal arrest.ย ย Donald Winn Williams II, a mixed martial arts fighter and the prosecution’s third witness who had yelled at Chauvin to check…
Historic New South Wales town could be renamed over its ‘racist’ links to slavery Growing calls for small beachside village on NSW far south coast to be renamed Boydtownย founded by Benjamin Boyd, regarded as Australia’s first ‘Blackbirder’ He shipped South Sea Islanders to Australia and exploited them as slave labour Property developer which owns 700…
