Jeremy Hunt today pledged to unshackle Britain from EU red tape to boost economic growth and called for the country to take advantage of its Brexit “freedoms” to become a new world leader. In a keynote speech at Bloomberg’s European headquarters in
A mannequin wearing a jersey of a Black Real Madrid player was found hanging from a bridge in Spain, and police are investigating the incident as a potential hate crime. The mannequin was wearing Vinicius Jr.’s jersey underneath a sign that read
Flames ripped through a flat in west London, with roughly 60 firefighters tackling the massive fire. Eight fire engines were called to the blaze on Douglas Crescent, Hayes, just after 3pm this afternoon. A London Fire Brigade spokesman said: “A flat on
The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a reparation plan, released the proposal for the mammoth $50bn payout in a draft report. Critics say if adopted it could bankrupt the city and say California was
Black Boy Lane in Tottenham, London will be officially renamed on Monday as La Rose Lane after John La Rose, a historic local who was a famous publisher and activist. He founded New Beacon Books, the first Caribbean publishing house in England.
Comment on this story Comment ActBlue, the online political fundraising platform that has raised $11 billion since 2004 for Democratic campaigns and liberal organizations, announced Thursday that Regina Wallace-Jones will take over as chief executive, making her the first Black woman to
Mhairi Black tonight raged at Rishi Sunak for refusing to give the green light to a second Scottish independence referendum. The SNP’s deputy Westminster leader accused the Prime Minister of running “roughshod” over Nicola Sturgeon’s bid for another vote on breaking up
Deion Sanders held a meeting with his new support staff at the University of Colorado, and wanted to get a feel from all departments on how to improve the culture of the football program. Sanders made one of his main goals clear
A relative of a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement died of cardiac arrest after being tasered multiple times by police. Officers said they were responding to a traffic collision when they saw Keenan Anderson, 31, “running in the middle of
Comment on this story Comment This story was first published in January 2020. Michael Platt has admired the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. since kindergarten. “He saw a problem he wanted to fix and wasn’t hesitant about it,” says the 14-year-old. It’s