From beats to ballots: What political rap lyrics tell us | Music
What role has hip-hop played in activism? From the 1980s, hip-hop has essentially enabled marginalised voices to break through to the mainstream. The song Girl […]
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Hospital nurse dies in Uganda in first Ebola virus outbreak since 2022, health ministry says
KAMPALA: A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in […]
Study Of Black-Life Matter Course
The course doesn’t require any additional fees, is entry-level and is open to any student. Rice University in Houston now offers a course titled „Afrochemistry: […]
Former US police officer sentenced in killing of Black man Elijah McClain | Black Lives Matter News
Randy Roedema handed 14-month sentence for 2019 killing of McClain, who was put in a chokehold, injected with ketamine. A former police officer in the […]
US paramedics found guilty in 2019 death of Black man Elijah McClain | Black Lives Matter News
McClain fell unconscious after police put him in a chokehold before paramedics injected him with powerful sedative. Two paramedics in the western US state of […]
Angela Davis: ‘Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world’ | Israel-Palestine conflict
Citing the late poet June Jordan, political activist Angela Davis stresses the importance of Palestine for other social justice movements. There has been a long […]
British-Ghanaian boxer Joshua Buatsi: ‘I can’t be the only one benefitting’ | Boxing
British-Ghanaian boxer Joshua Buatsi is an anomaly in the world of boxing. “They speak about me outside the ring in terms of ‘he’s a nice […]
Former US police officers face federal charges over death of Tyre Nichols | Courts News
The five officers are already facing state-level charges for beating Nichols, who died in the hospital three days later. Five former police officers in the […]
US police release footage showing fatal shooting of pregnant Black woman | Police News
Ta’Kiya Young and her unborn child were killed by police in Ohio in incident family says could have been avoided. Police in the US state […]
Ex-law officers plead guilty to charges of torturing two Black men in US | Crime News
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers, all of whom are white, have pleaded guilty to state charges for torturing two Black men in a racist […]