Race
Detroit (AFP) - Donald Trump met with Black voters Saturday as he courted a community that largely supported his rival Joe Biden four years ago but has seen notable numbers of African Americans shift allegiance ahead of November's presidential rematch. But the Republican former president also attended another campaign event later in the day with a more right-leaning audience, a gathering of the controversial conservative group Turning Point Action. Trump used his first appearance, at the 180 Church in Detroit, the largest city in the critical battleground state of Michigan, to suggest he may ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Police in Phoenix, one of the biggest cities in the United States, routinely use excessive force, a damning government report said Thursday -- the latest condemnation of problematic behavior by American law enforcement. Officers in the Arizona state capital rapidly escalate tensions in encounters with the public, resorting to sometimes deadly action within minutes of arriving on scene, the Justice Department said. They also target ethnic minorities, the homeless, people suffering mental health episodes and groups protesting police action, in what the Department of Justice d...
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By Adam PLOWRIGHT Paris (AFP) - L'ex-sprinteur américain Tommie Smith, passé à la postérité pour avoir posé poing levé sur le podium du 200 m des Jeux de Mexico en 1968, estime dans un entretien à l'AFP que les athlètes sont aujourd'hui moins politisés malgré la nécessité de continuer à lutter contre le racisme, notamment aux Etats-Unis. Figure du combat pour les droits civiques aujourd'hui âgé de 80 ans, l'ancien sprinteur américain, médaillé d’or à Mexico en 1968 et ex-détenteur du record du monde du 200 m, est à l’origine d’une des photos les plus emblématiques de l'histoire des Jeux olympi...
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Washington (AFP) - An Arizona man who allegedly wanted to "incite a race war" ahead of the November US presidential election has been indicted on firearms charges, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Mark Adams Prieto, 58, of Prescott, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday and faces up to 25 years in prison, the department said in a statement. Prieto entered into discussions between January and May with two individuals to "devise a plan to commit a mass shooting of African Americans and other minorities to incite a race war prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election," it said. Pri...
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Washington (AFP) - A lawyer and the family of a Black airman in the US Air Force who was shot dead last month by police in Florida called on Monday for the officer to face charges. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who has represented the families of other African American victims of police violence, welcomed the termination of the deputy but said he should face "full justice." "Full justice would be him being charged for the killing of senior airman Roger Fortson," Crump said at a press conference with Fortson's mother. "That's what his mother wants. That's what his family wants. They want ful...
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Toronto Police Service Supt. Stacy Clarke has pleaded guilty to seven counts of professional misconduct, including breach of confidence, discreditable conduct, and insubordination. Clarke, the department's first black female superintendent, provided questions and answers to a sergeant's exam to six black constables before they took the exam. At a tribunal hearing, her attorney said she was frustrated at how long it was taking to diversify the department and claimed she was trying to fight systemic racism. The prosecution asked that she be demoted to staff sergeant for at least two years before...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden's government on Friday said it was taking more time to consider a ban on menthol cigarettes, amid fears it could alienate Black voters in a tough election year. The Food and Drug Administration began working on a proposal that classifies menthol as a flavor -- and thus lead to its prohibition -- in 2021, and the rule was supposed to have been finalized last year. Health secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement the matter "has garnered historic attention and the public comment period has yielded an immense amount of feedback, including from various e...
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Washington (AFP) - The next US census and federal government forms will include new options for race and ethnicity including a category for people of Middle Eastern or North African origin, officials said. The changes, the first in nearly three decades, were announced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and published in the Federal Register on Friday. "These updated standards will help create more useful, accurate and up-to-date federal data on race and ethnicity," US Chief Statistician Karin Orvis said in a statement. "These revisions will enhance our ability to compare information a...
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It’s a win for the living over the dead in British sculpture. While most minds will jump to long past political and military characters like Nelson and Churchill when it comes to the UK’s statues, a new report revealed more statues of living people were erected last year. Art UK published an annual review of public sculptures and this year’s report had a few interesting details. 94 new installations were made in the UK in 2023, including sculptures of beloved writer Agatha Christie, national treasure Lenny Henry, and commemorations to Windrush and the victims of Covid-19. Taste vs freedom of e...
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Washington (AFP) - US presidential hopeful Nikki Haley faced a firestorm of criticism Thursday after failing to mention slavery as a cause of the American Civil War when asked what led to the conflict at a campaign event. Less than three weeks before voting begins in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, it was the first major stumble for a candidate whose campaign has seen her propelled from an unlikely outsider to front-runner Donald Trump's biggest threat. The former UN ambassador told a town hall crowd Wednesday in Berlin, New Hampshire that the cause of the bloody 1861...
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