Tag: Black people

PARIS (news agencies) — Lawmakers in France’s lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a bill that would ban discrimination over the texture, length, color or style of someone’s hair. ...

JACKSON, Miss. (news agencies) — A federal judge on Thursday finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who ...

LONDON (news agencies) — Vaughan Gething was elected first minister of Wales on Wednesday, becoming the first Black leader of a government in the U.K.Gething was elected government leader by ...

LONDON (news agencies) — Vaughan Gething’s election as the next leader of Wales marks a milestone: For the first time, none of the U.K.’s four main governments is led by ...

A white Connecticut state trooper was acquitted of all charges Friday in the death of Mubarak Soulemane, a Black 19-year-old community college student who was shot as he sat behind ...

LONDON (news agencies) — Britain’s Conservative government said Wednesday that the party does not plan to give back 10 million pounds ($12.8 million) it received in the past year from ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene wore a T-shirt to Thursday night’s State of the Union address that carried a seemingly simple message: Say Her Name.The hard-line Republican congresswoman from Georgia, who was ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (news agencies) — Miami Beach is trying to break up with spring break, but it’s not yet clear whether spring break will take the hint. After three ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (news agencies) — Tour booking agents and managers of a New Zealand island where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people in 2019 were ordered Friday to pay ...

PARIS (news agencies) — While France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, Missak Manouchian and his Resistance fighters’ heroic role in World War II are often overlooked. French President Emmanuel Macron ...