LISBON (Reuters) – Hundreds of anti-racism protesters took over one of Lisbon’s main squares on Friday to demand justice for Bruno Cande, a Black actor shot dead in a busy street last weekend. Cande, 39 and of Guinean origin, was
Home »
Young man shot and killed in Venezuela protesting gasoline shortages
CARACAS (Reuters) – A young man was shot to death in a fishing village in Venezuela during a protest over gasoline rationing, opposition deputies and a local human rights group said on Friday. Jose Luis Albornoz, 19, died Thursday of
Hong Kong bans protest anthem in schools as fears over freedoms intensify
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday banned school students from singing of “Glory to Hong Kong”, the unofficial anthem of the pro-democracy protest movement, just hours after Beijing set up its new national security bureau in the
Mississippi lawmakers vote to remove Confederate emblem from state flag
(Reuters) – Mississippi lawmakers have voted to remove a symbol of the pro-slavery Confederacy from the Deep South state’s flag, the latest symbol of racism to come down amid outrage at the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man,
Hong Kong store owner rejects call to remove protest statue
HONG KONG (Reuters) – The owner of a children’s clothes shop in Hong Kong has refused a request from his landlord to remove a statue celebrating anti-government protests saying he wanted to teach children about democracy and he was not
Black Lives Matter protesters march through Tokyo
TOKYO (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters in Tokyo took part in a Black Lives Matter march on Sunday, calling for an end to racial discrimination and police abuse after the killing of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.
Group protests police shooting outside home of Denver DA Beth McCann
Denver protesters demonstrated in front of District Attorney Beth McCann’s home Friday night as the family of a man killed by police last month questioned the official account of his death. About 90 minutes later, in an unusual live interview,
One American city's model of policing reform means building 'social currency'
CAMDEN, N.J. (Reuters) – Zsakhiem James, a police captain in Camden, New Jersey – once considered the most dangerous city in the United States – sees every encounter with a resident as an opportunity to build “social currency” to prevent
'Shameful' to threaten Churchill statue, says UK PM Johnson
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday it was “absurd and shameful” that a statue of Winston Churchill was at risk of attack by protesters, his strongest statement yet on a growing trend to challenge the
Confronting a bygone era, London removes slave trader statue
LONDON (Reuters) – A statue of Robert Milligan, an 18th century slave trader, was removed from its plinth outside a London museum on Tuesday after global anti-racism protests triggered a debate about how Britain commemorates its imperial past. Statues glorifying