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Virginia governor Ralph Northam hailed an “awakening” on “black oppression” on Wednesday in the wake of the George Floyd demonstrations, while again denying he appeared in a yearbook photo featuring a man in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan regalia. “There’s been an awakening of really what Black oppression is,” Northam told NBC’s Lester …

British officials said Thursday the grave of an enslaved African man has been vandalized in an apparent “retaliation attack” after protesters in the city of Bristol toppled the statue of a prominent slave trader. Two headstones in memory of Scipio Africanus, who lived in Bristol in the 18th century, were smashed. A message scrawled in …

Wayne Brady has opened up about the scary incident which left him fearing that his daughter, Maile Masako Brady, could become a victim of racial profiling. The comedian told “Access Hollywood” that when Maile was 14, she accidentally locked herself out of the family’s Malibu home, setting off an alarm that warned “armed” responders of …

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HBO Max is crafting a “slow and careful” return for “Gone With the Wind” to the streaming service. But actress Queen Latifah is over it already. “Let ‘Gone With the Wind’ be gone with the wind,” the award-winning actress told The Associated Press in a recent interview. HBO Max has been under fire since it …

“Scrubs” co-stars Zach Braff and Donald Faison opened up about their close friendship during heightened racial tensions throughout the US, saying that white people should put more effort into understanding issues that plague minority communities. Braff, 45, said on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on Monday that while he feels he had a “leg up in …

A Las Vegas woman has been arrested after allegedly stabbing Michael Jackson’s niece seven times and hurling racist slurs, according to a report. Angela Bonell, 22, is accused of slashing Yasmine Jackson on May 30 near her home, telling her it was “because she was a n—-r,” according to an arrest report obtained by Page …

The recent events in America that are sparking mourning, protest, and action are personal, as is the leadership needed to create, model, and adopt solutions to combat injustice and continue to improve the world. Americans have watched the events of the past week in horror and with sadness for our country. Following the unjust death …

The United Nations Human Rights Council has decided to hold a urgent debate on racism and police brutality in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. The proposal, made by a group of African countries led by Burkina Faso, was approved on Monday by the U.N.’s top human rights body. The debate on …