US officer who killed Patrick Lyoya pleads not guilty to murder
Killing of 26-year-old refugee in US state of Michigan has reignited nationwide debate over racism and police violence.A police officer in the United States who fatally shot an…
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Biden condemns ‘evil’ of white supremacy after mass shooting
Ten Black people were killed at a market in Buffalo, New York, by a white teenager espousing racist theories.President Joe Biden condemned the “poison” of white supremacy in the…
‘An execution’: Patrick Lyoya’s family demands justice
Patrick Lyoya was “executed” by police, the 26-year-old Black man’s family and supporters have said, a day after authorities in the US state of Michigan released video footage…
Systemic racism holding back Black Americans: Civil rights group
National Urban League says median household income for Black people in US is 37 percent lower than that of white people.Black people in the United States are trailing white people…
‘Historic injustice’: Biden makes lynching a US hate crime
United States President Joe Biden has signed into law the first federal legislation that makes lynching a federal hate crime in the country after civil rights groups pushed for…
A year after spa killings, Americans protest anti-Asian hate
Americans protesting anti-Asian violence gathered in Atlanta, Georgia and other United States cities on Wednesday to mark one year since a mass shooting of women of Asian heritage…
Emmett Till’s relatives push for renewed probe into 1955 lynching
A Black teenager from Chicago, Till’s abduction, torture and murder decades ago galvanised the US civil rights movement.Relatives of Emmett Till, a Black teenager whose 1955…