As the United States women’s national soccer team (USWNT) geared up to face the Netherlands in a friendly on Friday, their anthem jackets were emboldened with a message: Black Lives Matter.
Burial ground reveals Stone Age people wore clothing covered in elk teeth
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Elk teeth pendants may have been the jewelry of choice for at least one Stone Age group that lived 8,200 years ago. A Stone Age burial ground on a small Russian island revealed more than 4,300 Eurasian elk teeth pe...
‘This moment belongs to all of us:’ Black women exult as Kamala Harris walks into history
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Human rights lawyer Tara Murray had hopes of somehow witnessing Kamala Harris' vice-presidential oath in person. But a raging pandemic and the January 6 violent siege on the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob got in her ...
Biden administration promises equitable vaccine access to Black and brown communities
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President-elect Joe Biden and his administration vow to ensure Black and brown people get equal access to the Covid-19 vaccine through mobile clinics, vaccination centers and partnerships with local communities, the...
Muslim advocacy group warns American Muslims and Black communities to avoid state capitol buildings ahead of inauguration
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has issued an advisory warning American Muslims and other minority groups to avoid state capitol buildings and surrounding areas ahead of Inauguration Day. CAIR also ...
GOP Sen. Lankford appeals to Black constituents after sowing doubt about election
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Washington Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, under pressure from his Black constituents over his decision to initially support objections to Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory last week, expla...
More than 100 arrested after protests over a Black man’s death in police custody
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More than a hundred people were arrested in Brussels on Wednesday night after violent protests over the death of a man in police custody. The Brussels prosecutor's office said Wednesday it had opened an investigati...
Black mothers in the UK are four times more likely to die in childbirth than their White counterparts. Little is being done to find out why
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London When pharmacist Ifeoma Onwuka, known to her friends as Laura, went into hospital to have her daughter, she and her husband hoped the delivery would go smoothly, and that they would soon be able to take their n...
Here’s why experts and lawmakers say you can’t compare Black Lives Matter protesters to the US Capitol mob
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Hours before President Donald Trump was impeached on Wednesday for his role in inciting last week's deadly attack, lawmakers described the rioters as White supremacists. "Let us be clear, this was a domestic terror ...
A Black man who wrongfully served 26 years on death row in the killing of a White woman is now free
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Eddie Lee Howard was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1994. Now, after decades of fighting, he has been exonerated. Howard, who is Black, was sentenced to death in 1994, after being wrongfully convicted for the murd...
Man seen chasing Black Capitol police officer in video faces charges
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The man seen chasing a Black Capitol police officer up the stairs during Wednesday's insurrection and riot is Doug Jensen, according to a CNN comparative analysis of his booking photo and posts on social media. Jens...
Sister of Black woman killed by US Capitol police angered by response to white rioters
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Watching rioters storm the US Capitol reopened old wounds for Valarie Carey. Carey's younger sister, Miriam Carey, was fatally shot by Capitol police and US Secret Service officers more than seven years ago after l...