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Congolese independence hero’s gold-capped tooth handed over as ex-colonial power faces its bloody pastBelgian authorities have returned a tooth of the murdered Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba to his children, in a new move towards recognition of atrocities that accompanied the country’s brutal exploitation of the former colony.The relic is all that remains of Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of...

Officers served with gross misconduct notices after black schoolgirl searched without another adult presentFour Metropolitan police officers are being investigated for gross misconduct after a 15-year-old black schoolgirl was strip-searched while at school.The teenager, referred to as Child Q, was strip-searched by female Met officers in 2020 after she was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis at her east London school. Continue reading...

Genivaldo de Jesus Santos dies of asphyxiation as video shows officers forcing him into vehicle then releasing gas grenadeBrazilians have responded with outrage to the death of a mentally ill Black man who was bundled into the back of a police car by officers who then released a gas grenade inside the vehicle.Genivaldo de Jesus Santos, 38, was stopped by the federal highway police...

Met’s Neil Basu says ‘positive discrimination’ should be introduced to boost minority ethnic numbers in ranks‘British policing is institutionally racist. Until we admit it we’ll never win back trust’One of Britain’s most senior officers has called on chiefs to admit that institutional racism blights policing, declaring “we are guilty as charged”, and blaming failures on the leadership of law enforcement.Neil Basu, an assistant commissioner...

The German capital’s liberal reputation has been derailed by clashes between subcontracted ticket inspectors and black peopleA Berlin metro ticket controller squeezes through a throng of old-school punks, mariachi band members and burly men in leather chaps, all while jauntily humming Is’ mir egal, “It’s all the same to me”.The 2015 viral ad, featuring Turkish-German Neukölln rapper Kazim Akboga, was a great marketing success...

Michael German, who infiltrated white supremacist groups in the 1990s, says the FBI continues to underplay the scope of the threatThe Federal Bureau of Investigation is failing to address the rising scourge of white supremacist violence despite stark warnings that such attacks pose the greatest domestic terrorism threat in the US, a leading authority on law enforcement has told the Guardian.Michael German, a former...

Kathy Hochul condemns ‘mainstreaming of hate speech’ and easy access to military-style weapons after Buffalo shootingNew York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, has unveiled what she called a “comprehensive plan to combat domestic terrorism and prevent gun violence”, days after a white supremacist allegedly killed 10 Black shoppers and staff at a Buffalo grocery store.“We as a country are facing an intersection of two crises: the...

Buffalo suspect allegedly calls himself ‘eco-fascist’ and blames migration for harm to the environment in document posted onlineThe suspected perpetrator of the deadly shooting in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday may have been the latest mass killer to be motivated by a growing fixation of rightwingers – environmental degradation and the impact of overpopulation.The attack, that left 10 people shot dead and three wounded,...

Extremist ideology has found favor with media figures like Tucker Carlson and also with elected politicians and others seeking officeThe massacre by a white supremacist gunman of Black shoppers at a Buffalo grocery store has drawn renewed scrutiny of Republican figures in the US who have embraced the racist “great replacement theory” he is alleged to have used as justification for the murders.Born from...

Details show plotting had likely been in development for months, while signs of trouble had surrounded shooter for some timeAs Buffalo, New York, mourns the victims of a mass shooting at a supermarket Saturday that left 10 dead and three wounded, details are emerging about the shooter’s movements before the attack and how the devastating racist attack unfolded.The 18-year-old shooter, who is a self-confessed...

She will be the first Black openly gay woman to step into the role, a symbol of change after the Donald Trump eraThis week the blue door will slide back, a Black woman will walk to the lectern and a piece of White House history will be made.Karine Jean-Pierre, facing rows of reporters and cameras, will be making her briefing room debut as the...

Hundreds of images of the British Nigerian man who died in Leeds in 1969 are on display across the city in defiance of thievesRacists who stole a blue plaque commemorating the death of a British-Nigerian man in Leeds have been “taught a lesson” as citizens overwhelmingly came together to display hundreds of images of the plaque on billboards, video screens and stickers across the...

Church service to mark eight centuries since Synod of Oxford brings together chief rabbi, senior Anglicans and Roman Catholic bishopThe Church of England is to apologise for its “shameful actions” in passing anti-Jewish laws 800 years ago that paved the way for the expulsion of Jews from England.A special service at Christ Church cathedral in Oxford on Sunday, marking the 800th anniversary of the...

Boy who went missing from hospital arrested and held at Gatwick facility after being wrongly recorded as NigerianA woman has described how her 17-year-old black British son was found at an immigration detention centre after going missing while being treated for psychosis.The boy – who is non-verbal – disappeared from a hospital in Kent, where he had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act,...

Report released by Minnesota’s human rights department says agency and city will negotiate an agreement to address problemsThe Minneapolis police department has engaged in a pattern of racial discrimination for at least a decade, including stopping and arresting Black people at a higher rate than white people, using force more often on people of color and maintaining a culture where racist language is tolerated,...

John Lansdown is seeking financial compensation and damages of up to £76m, according to reportsA former P&O Ferries chef is reportedly suing the company for unfair dismissal, racial discrimination and harassment.John Lansdown has filed a tribunal claim against the company and its chief executive, and is seeking financial compensation and exemplary damages of up to £76m, according to the BBC. Continue reading...

‘We must teach that America is good’ says top Republican of bill banning teaching that US is ‘fundamentally racist’The Georgia senate passed a bill on Friday that would limit discussions of race in kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms.House Bill 1084, the “Protect Students First Act”, was approved by the Georgia senate. The measure requires local school boards and administrators to ban discrimination on the...

Ruling throws out Wisconsin’s redrawn electoral map, which included a new district to account for Black population growthEven for experts who closely follow the US supreme court, there was something stunning about an emergency decision from the justices on Wednesday.In an unexpected move, the court decided to throw out new districts for the state legislature in Wisconsin that had been picked by the state...

Landmark group votes to base compensation plan on lineage rather than race after day of debateCalifornia’s first-in-the-nation taskforce on reparations for African Americans has voted to direct state compensation to the descendants of enslaved and free Black people who were in the US in the 19th century.The group said that a compensation and restitution plan based on lineage – as opposed to one based...

Kamala Harris and relatives of Ida B Wells and Emmett Till attend ceremony marking Emmett Till Antilynching ActThe first federal legislation making lynching a hate crime, addressing a history of racist killings in the United States, became law on Tuesday.The bill, passed by the Senate this month, is named for Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955....

Francia Márquez, 40, an environmental campaigner who has survived at least one assassination attempt, is leftist Gustavo Petro’s running mate She is an Afro-Colombian environmental crusader who has faced down untold death threats and survived at least one assassination attempt to become one of the leading lights of Latin America’s new left.Now, Francia Márquez, 39, could be on the verge of becoming Colombia’s next...

Nominee talked of ‘historic chance’ to be the first Black woman on supreme court – but first she had to listen to a lot of white menHistory was made Monday, as the first Black woman ever nominated to the US supreme court testified to the Senate judiciary committee. But before Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson could speak at her confirmation hearing, she first had to...

Report said incidents were not all warranted or properly justifiedThe Metropolitan police was rebuked by a watchdog for conducting “unjustified” strip searches on children two years before officers performed an intrusive search on a black 15-year-old schoolgirl in a case that has sparked a racism scandal.Scotland Yard was forced to apologise last week after it emerged that the teenager, known as Child Q, was...

Critics say race is an issue in treatment of African students fleeing war in UkraineRussia-Ukraine war: latest newsTwo weeks ago, Alani Iyanuoluwa fled Kyiv as the Russian invasion intensified. Making her way across Europe, the 24-year-old hoped to be reunited with family in London. Yet for 10 days she has been stranded in a French port – because she is Nigerian.Iyanuoluwa is among a...