HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The senseless killing of George Floyd by a police officer two years ago in the US state of Minnesota is still vivid in the minds of African Americans. On May 25, 2020, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, placed his knee on the back of Floyd’s neck for […]
NAIROBI, Kenya – (AA): Leading media outlets, mainly in North America and Europe, are using images of African negroid people alongside stories of the monkeypox outbreak, which has offended many Africans. The Foreign Press Association, Africa (FPAA), a Pan African non-profit membership organization of journalists covering Africa for the i...
White supremacists are a growing national threat, warn the FBI, National Counterterrorism Center, and Department of Homeland Security. Yet, in the wake of last weekend’s deadly Buffalo, New York shooting by a suspected gunman who said he was targeting Blacks, most Republicans in Congress deny there’s a trend. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas told Raw...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Russia is subjecting Crimean Tartars to the same repressive policies of the Soviet era, the leader of the Crimean Tatars said Thursday. Mustafa Abdulcemil Kirimoglu, who is also a deputy in Ukraine’s parliament, was speaking to Anadolu Agency on the 78th anniversary of the Crimean Tatars’ deportation from their historical ...
JOHANNESBURG – Thousands of South Africans have signed a petition calling for the expulsion of a white student who was recorded urinating on the belongings of a Black student at Stellenbosch University. Nearly 50,000 people had signed the petition to expel Theuns Du Toit, who urinated on the desk, textbooks and laptop of Babalo Ndwayana,...
Preliminary data show a double-digit spike in hate crimes last year, and a continued rise into 2022. Bias-motivated incidents in 37 major U.S. cities increased by nearly 39% on average. The 10 largest metropolitan areas reported a record 54.5% increase. Incidents targeting Asian and Jewish Americans accounted for the bulk of cases. The analy...
BERLIN (AA) – A suspected Nazi terrorist attack was prevented in Germany’s western city of Essen, officials said on Thursday. North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul said at a televised news conference in Duesseldorf that police discovered material for a bomb for a terror attack at the home of a 16-year-old high school student in...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools has identified at least 53 associated burial sites with 500 deaths reported so far, a number the US government believes could grow exponentially as the research continues. The report by the Interior Department pinpointed more than 400 schools desi...
PARIS (AA) – France on Tuesday marked the national day of the abolition of slavery, but non-governmental organizations see a long road of reparation ahead. In 2006, then-President Jacques Chirac proposed May 10 as the National Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery, and Their Abolition. It has been celebrated ever since, and...
BERLIN – Neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists committed 21,964 crimes in Germany last year, the government has admitted. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser presented the government’s report on politically motivated crimes at a news conference in Berlin. “Far-right is the biggest threat to our democracy and the biggest extremist threat ...
