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BEIJING  — Videos circulating on Chinese social media featuring the abuse of a popular toy known as the “Natasha doll” have sparked international criticism, with activists and commentators condemning the trend as racist and dehumanizing. […]

By Jamila Bey (BET.COM) (Photo by RICHARD PIERRIN/AFP via Getty Images) A former rebel known as “the torturer,” who had a history of armed insurrection against Haitian presidents, was apprehended in connection with the murder […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE —  July 14, 2021 –  by BlackPressUSA – By Fitsum Arega, Ethiopian Ambassador to the U.S., Special to the NNPA NewswireIn 2011, Ethiopia announced to build a hydroelectric dam on its Abbay River, known […]

By Cassidy Sparks | August 13, 2020 – As a kid with a dream, there is nothing more exciting than having someone show you that they believe in your talent. That is exactly what Netflix […]

By Brandon R. Byrd  – At approximately 8:19 p.m. on the evening of May 25, Derek Chauvin, a 19-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department, brought his weight down upon George Floyd’s neck. Floyd, a 46-year-old […]

On Wednesday, residents in South Africa and Brazil volunteered to begin the testing of a COVID-19 vaccination trial developed by the University of Oxford in Britain. The trials are starting in South Africa because it […]

The coronavirus-inspired anti-Black racism experienced by Africans in China hasn’t gotten any better since it was exposed last month, according to an African leader in the Asian country. Maximus Ogbonna, president of the Association of […]

https://rollingout.com/2020/05/01/blacks-in-china-reportedly-told-not-to-report-racial-discrimination/

2019 was one of the best years for Ghana’s tourism industry after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced the Year of Return campaign. The campaign was a yearlong celebration to honor the 400 year anniversary […]

DETROIT – Ruben Burks, the first African American International UAW Secretary-Treasurer, died Monday. His work began as an assembler at the former General Motors Fisher Body Plant 2 in Flint in 1955. Burks joined UAW Local […]