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U.S. judge repeats Trump vulgarity toward African nations during immigration hearing
A U.S. judge Tuesday repeated President Donald Trump's vulgar description of African countries while questioning his administration's motives for ending a program that lets immigrants from four countries live and work legally in the U.S. Judge Edward Chen during a hearing in a lawsuit seeking ...
Social media network mobilizing blacks ahead of Brazil elections
As Brazil's general elections approach, a new social network is gaining traction aimed at giving greater visibility to black candidates while highlighting anti-racism initiatives in the country tainted by racial prejudice. Black & Black, which has 100,000 users — in a population of more than ...
Chinese man arrested after calling Kenya's president a 'monkey'
Kenya has arrested a Chinese businessman after a video of him making a string of racist remarks was widely shared on social media, the Kenyan government said Thursday. The Chinese national, identified as Liu Jiaqi, has been arrested and is being processed for deportation, Kenya's ...
German authorities target far-right party's youth wing, suspect it's tied with extremist groups
German authorities said Monday they're stepping up surveillance of the far-right Alternative for Germany amid growing concern the third-largest party in parliament is closing ranks with extremist groups. Activists for AfD, the nationalist party's German acronym, marched in the eastern city of Chemnitz alongside leading ...
The father of slain Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts in an opinion piece spoke out against using his daughter's death in support of "views she believed were profoundly racist," a call that comes after President Donald Trump and others seized on the suspected killer's ...
Racism immediately became an issue in the Florida governor's race Wednesday as both nominees made predictions: The Democrat said voters aren't looking for a misogynist, racist or bigot, while the Republican said voters shouldn't "monkey this up" by choosing his African-American opponent. Only hours after ...
Germany was reeling Tuesday as xenophobia reared its head with far-right protests degenerating into attacks against foreign-looking people, adding fuel to an already explosive debate over migrants. After Sunday's fatal stabbing of a German man, 35, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi, thousands of ...
Time and again, Chinese-American students consistently delivered top academic scores, only to be denied admission to their dream school. Parents bemoaned what they saw as an unfair racial advantage given to black and Latino children while their own children were overlooked. "Every year hundreds of ...
Trump calls ex-'Apprentice' star and axed White House aide a 'dog'
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday called former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a "dog" and his campaign took legal action against her as the two former reality TV stars escalated their public feud. The spat came as Manigault Newman, a former contestant on ...
A white supremacist rally outside the White House fizzled out Sunday after only a handful of neo-Nazis showed up and were massively outnumbered by hundreds of counterprotesters. In an effort to avoid a repeat of the chaos of a deadly protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, exactly ...
One year after Charlottesville rally, Trump still flirts with racially tinged rhetoric
There has been no reset, no moment of national healing. One year after blaming "both sides" for violent clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters, U.S. President Donald Trump still flirts with racially tinged rhetoric — and feels little blowback from Republican leaders or GOP voters ...
Charlottesville confronts identity one year after violent clashes over white nationalist rally
For many residents of Charlottesville, last year's white nationalist rally shattered the city's carefully curated reputation as a progressive, idyllic place to live. But for Nikuyah Walker, an activist who was elected mayor just three months later, the violent clashes only underscored deep racial and ...
