An Oxford University student is drawn into the world of a charming aristocratic classmate. Read full article at source...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. This story was originally published by Capital B. Last summer, Elon Musk quietly transformed a portion of a South Memphis, Tennessee, community established by a group of formerly enslaved people in 1863 into what the world’s wealthiest man...
Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! As Anita Wolfe sat in the hallway of a Charleston, West Virginia, county courtroom, waiting to testify against the U.S. government, she thought of her dad, who first started working as a coal miner when he was around 12. She remembered...
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Former Manchester United academy player Angel Gomes speaks to BBC Sport’s senior football correspondent Sami Mokbel about his time playing at Old Trafford and whether the pressure of the club is too much for some players. READ MORE: ‘Some Man Utd players may have been intimidated by weight of shirt’ Read full article at source...
A black box has been found at the site of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, India’s civil aviation minister said on Friday. The flight data recorder was recovered within 28 hours by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu confirmed. All but one of the 242 people on the London-bound...
Jonathan Geddes BBC Scotland News PA Media Sir Geoff Palmer became Scotland’s first black professor in 1989 Scotland’s first black professor Sir Geoff Palmer has died, aged 85. Sir Geoff, chancellor and professor emeritus at Heriot-Watt University, moved to the UK from Jamaica as a teenager and became known as both an academic and a...
Uriah Rennie, the Premier League’s first black referee, has died aged 65. Rennie officiated more than 300 games between 1997 and 2008, including 175 Premier League matches. “We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our former chair and trailblazing referee, Uriah Rennie,” said a Sheffield & Hallamshire County Football Association statement., external...
“I said before the play-off final that my heart was in Sunderland – I wanted to stay, and this made it the most important game of my life. Together, we did it,” Le Fee told the club website. “From the moment I arrived, I have enjoyed my football, my team-mates, and our supporters. We shared...
Piers Morgan, in a February podcast, accused his guest, “trans activist” Blossom Brown, of “race-baiting.” Brown replied, “Black women cannot be racist to white women.” Brown then added this inability to be racist to white women extended to Morgan: “How am I racist to you? I’m Black. I can’t be racist...
Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News Reuters Tamara Lanier, pictured in 2018, has waged a 15 year battle with Harvard over the photos Harvard University has agreed to hand over a set of historic photos believed to be among the earliest depicting enslaved people in the United States. The agreement ends a long legal battle between...
US President Donald Trump has commended Elon Musk for his work at Doge as he hosted the tech mogul at the White House on his last day as as a special government employee. The president said that Musk “is not really leaving” and will occasionally be back at the White House because Doge is his...
A new study confirms what locals and environmental activists across the Gulf South and beyond have said for years: Black, Brown and Indigenous workers do not benefit equitably from jobs offered by the petrochemical industry despite their communities often bearing the brunt of its pollution. In Louisiana, for example, residents and activists say jobs promised...
The police watched us. The march leaders chanted, “Tell me what democracy looks like!” We answered, “This is what democracy looks like!” Ducking under signs and umbrellas, I saw us, the left, grim-faced and determined. The gray sky and rain added a heaviness. I pivoted and noted the absence of Black New Yorkers. Where were...
Coventry had almost 60% of the ball on the night as Lampard’s side had 20 shots to Sunderland’s 16. And Le Bris, who has now led Sunderland to a play-off final against Sheffield United in his first season at the club, conceded the visitors were the better team in normal time. “It’s really fantastic because...