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Trump lynching claim renews pain for kin of actual victims

10:05 pm October 23, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Alabama: Willie Edwards Jr., a black truck driver, was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen who forced him to jump off a bridge in Alabama in 1957. Two years earlier, white men had bludgeoned black teenager Emmett Till to death in Mississippi. No one went to prison for either slaying. Both people died in racist […]

BBC fires presenter over racist royal baby chimp tweet

10:13 pm May 9, 2019

London: Veteran British broadcaster Danny Baker was fired on Thursday by the BBC after using a racist picture of a chimpanzee holding hands of a couple in a tweet, tagged with the caption “royal baby leaves hospital”. Meghan Markle, wife of Prince Harry, gave birth on Monday to a baby boy, Archie, the first mixed […]