An officer has been suspended after footage emerged that appears to show police kneeling on a man’s neck. Video recorded in Islington, London, shows two officers holding a handcuffed suspect, who is black, on the pavement. A second officer has been removed from operational duty following the arrest on Thursday evening. Deputy Met Police commissioner […]
Read MoreWhen a young tech entrepreneur with a history of doing business in Nigeria and Bangladesh was found dismembered this week in his multimillion dollar Manhattan condominium, the case at first seemed to have all the trappings of an international thriller. Someone in a black suit, a mask and latex gloves had followed the victim, Fahim […]
Read MoreJohn Lewis, who went from being the youngest leader of the 1963 March on Washington to a long-serving congressman from Georgia and icon of the civil rights movement, died Friday. He was 80. In December 2019, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. As a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Lewis was a committed […]
Read MoreA Michigan judge’s decision to send a 15-year-old girl to juvenile detention for violating her probation by not completing her online schoolwork during the coronavirus lockdown has prompted protests and calls for her release. The African-American teenager has reportedly been detained since mid-May. Hundreds of students gathered outside her school and the court to show […]
Read MoreChelsea held on to their place in the Premier League’s top four by bouncing back to beat Watford 3-0 on Saturday after Manchester United briefly powered past with a 5-2 rout of struggling Bournemouth. Third-placed Leicester also got back on track with Jamie Vardy reaching 100 top-flight goals in a comfortable 3-0 win against Crystal […]
Read MoreKanye West, the entertainment mogul who urges listeners in one song to “reach for the stars, so if you fall, you land on a cloud,” claimed Saturday he is challenging Donald Trump for the US presidency in 2020. “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our […]
Read MoreThe United Kingdom said Wednesday it would offer a path to citizenship for eligible Hong Kong residents and condemned China’s new security law as a threat to the city’s freedom. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in an on-camera interview that after “carefully” assessing the contents of the new national security law, it constitutes “a […]
Read MoreNigerian-British designer Mowalola Ogunlesi has been appointed as the Design Director of Kanye West’s Yeezy Gap initiative. In a post to Instagram, Ogunlesi shared the exciting news regarding her new role. “Design Director of Yeezy Gap,” she wrote alongside a photo of the logo for Yeezy Gap. On Friday (June 26), ‘Ye announced his latest […]
Read MoreOn last week’s Wednesday night special, Glenn Beck revealed where the Black Lives Matter organization really gets its funding, and the dark money trail leading to a cast of familiar characters. Shortly after the program aired, one of BLM’s fiscal sponsors, Thousand Currents, took down its board of directors page, which featured one of these […]
Read MoreJuventus coach, Maurizio Sarri, still believes that playing at home continues to offer an advantage in spite of matches currently being played without fans because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It still exists even when there isn’t a crowd,” he told a news conference ahead of their visit to Genoa for a Serie A match on […]
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