Ashley Madekwe Reflects On Racism & Being Made To Play ‘The Naked Black Slave At Drama School

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Ashley Madekwe Reflects On Racism & Being Made To Play ‘The Naked Black Slave At Drama School

I first met Ashley Madekwe just over a year ago in a bustling London hotel bar to talk about her latest movie, County Lines which was showing at the BFI…

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Racism is a public health crisis

Few of us will be sorry to see 2020 come to an end, and many have a sense of optimism for 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic that opened the year and…

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Slavery and racism haunt the US still. Could Germany’s model for Holocaust remembrance be the answer?

In the mid-1950s, a decade after World War II ended, the town of Dachau took down the directional signs that pointed to its concentration camp. Visitors had swarmed the area…

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Trump Claims Teaching Kids About Racism Is “Child Abuse,” Wants It Abolished From Schools and Replaced With a “Patriotic Education”

As Barr surely knows, slaves were literally restrained in chains, while people told to stay at home this spring to avoid the spread of COVID-19 were actually free to leave…

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Trump TV ads stoke racism in Midwest

President Trump resumed television advertising after the Republican National Convention with two racially charged commercials airing in Minnesota and Wisconsin, battleground states racked by social upheaval after recent violent police…

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News Analysis: Trump sidesteps mention of America’s racism

President Trump’s speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination gave him an opportunity to do something he has so far failed to do in explicit terms. It gave him a prime-time…

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Muslims are being blamed for England’s coronavirus outbreaks, in the latest sign of Covid-19-related racism

Muslims were caught off guard last week, when the UK government suddenly announced local lockdowns in a slew of areas in northern England where cases have spiked. The announcement came…

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Trump Claims Journalists ‘Slander’ All Veterans by Calling Out Racism in Independence Day Address

Fresh off an astonishingly incendiary speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday night, President Trump picked up where he left off on Saturday and took aim at the media—bizarrely claiming that…

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Porsha Williams, Kandi Burruss & Gizelle Bryant Talk Racism & More

Gary Gershoff/Getty Images / Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images A candid conversation. On Monday, Daily Pop co-host Justin Sylvester appeared on Bravo’s Instagram Live to host an open…

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New York ends curfew; William Barr denies racism

John Bacon and Jorge L. Ortiz USA TODAY Published 4:58 PM EDT Jun 7, 2020 Mayor Bill de Blasio canceled New York’s curfew Sunday following a day when cities across the…

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