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Daunte Wright death in Minnesota traffic stop sparks unrest

9:43 pm April 12, 2021

BROOKLYN CENTER: A Black man died after being shot by police in a Minneapolis suburb during a traffic stop and crashing his car several blocks away, sparking violent protests that lasted into the early hours Monday as officers in riot gear clashed with demonstrators and the man’s mother called for calm. The man was identified […]

California gets Latino US senator, some Black leaders angry

10:48 pm December 23, 2020

Los Angeles: California is getting its first Latino US senator. For Gov. Gavin Newsom, it’s a political gamble. The Democratic governor Tuesday named Secretary of State Alex Padilla, the son of Mexican immigrants, to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. When Padilla goes to Washington, the former state legislator will become California’s first Latino senator since the […]

Recordings reveal confusion behind Breonna Taylor’s death

2:23 pm October 3, 2020

Louisville: The police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor described seeing only “shadowy mass” and said he didn’t recall firing the 16 bullets later matched to his gun. As she lay bleeding, Taylor’s boyfriend called his mother before dialling 911. And neighbours roused by the gunfire at Taylor’s apartment after midnight on March 13 only added to […]

Kamala Harris’ parents found common ground in a Black study group after their arrival in US

11:50 pm September 13, 2020

New York: A Black study group that focussed on race drew Shyamala Gopalan, mother of Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and her husband Donald Harris together when they arrived at the University of California at Berkeley, a media report said. A report in The New York Times said that at an off-campus space at the University of California at Berkeley in the fall […]

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

Trump lags Biden on people of colour in top campaign ranks

11:49 pm July 11, 2020

Washington: Amid a summer of racial unrest and calls for more diversity in leadership, President Donald Trump lags Democratic rival Joe Biden in the percentage of people of colour on their campaign staffs, according to data the campaigns provided to The Associated Press. Twenty-five percent of the Republican president’s senior staff are nonwhite, compared to 36 per cent of Biden’s senior […]