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Nashville (AFP) - "Twenty-three in Music City / With dreams and high-heeled boots / Singin' for a crowd of blue eyes / Will they want me too?" croons Julie Williams at the Blue Room venue in Nashville. The 26-year-old, who is biracial, is one of many Black female artists carving out space in country music's capital, where predominantly white, male gatekeepers dictate who makes it -- and who doesn't. Megastar Beyonce's highly anticipated country album, out Friday, has cast a spotlight on efforts by Black performers -- a vital part of the genre's history -- to create a more inclusive Nashville. ...
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Washington (AFP) - A former Mississippi sheriff's deputy who took part in the torture of two Black men with fellow white officers who called themselves the "Goon Squad" was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Thursday. Brett McAlpin, four other former members of the Rankin County Sheriff's Department and a former member of the Richland Police Department pleaded guilty in August to multiple offenses. McAlpin, 53, and Joshua Hartfield, 32, the Richland policeman, were the final members of the group to be sentenced on charges that included civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights and obstruc...
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Aya Nakamura has not yet been confirmed to sing at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, but reports that French President Emmanuelle Macron has sounded her out to headline the event have sparked a racism row in the country. The possibility that the French-Malian pop singer might perform from the repertoire of national treasure Edith Piaf has caused indignation among some far-right supporters. Nakamura is the most listened-to French artist in the world and the only woman to feature in the country’s top 20 bestselling albums of 2023. But the Olympics speculation has made her the target of ...
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France recorded significantly more racist crimes last year than in the previous year. With around 8,500 crimes and misdemeanours, the number rose by 32%, the Ministry of the Interior in Paris announced on Wednesday. There were around 6,400 racist incidents where people were racially insulted, provoked or defamed, or subjected to death threats and blackmail. Physical violence and attacks occurred less frequently, but such cases also increased last year. In its statistics, the ministry counts all reported offences that were directed against someone's ethnicity, nation or religion. According to t...
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Washington (AFP) - A former Mississippi policeman who carried out a brutal attack on two Black men with fellow white officers who called themselves the "Goon Squad" was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Hunter Elward, four other former members of the Rankin County Sheriff's Department and a former member of the Richland Police Department pleaded guilty in August to multiple offenses. Elward, 31, who shot one of the men in the mouth during the attack, was the first member of the group to be sentenced on charges that included civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights and obstruction ...
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Borussia Mönchengladbach forward Jordan was racially abused on social media after Tuesday's German Cup quarter-final defeat to third division Saarbrücken, the Bundesliga side said on Wednesday. "Disappointment and criticism are understandable reactions to losing a game. Hate, insults and racism are not and never will be," a statement said. United States forward Jordan is on loan from Union Berlin. On Monday, the 36 clubs in the top two German tiers announced a campaign for this weekend's matchday entitled: "Together! Stop hate. Be a team." The campaign will coincide with the International Week...
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Borussia Mönchengladbach forward Jordan was racially abused on social media after Tuesday's German Cup quarter-final defeat to third division Saarbrücken, the Bundesliga side said on Wednesday. "Disappointment and criticism are understandable reactions to losing a game. Hate, insults and racism are not and never will be," a statement said. United States forward Jordan is on loan from Union Berlin. On Monday, the 36 clubs in the top two German tiers announced a campaign for this weekend's matchday entitled: "Together! Stop hate. Be a team." The campaign will coincide with the International Week...
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Borussia Mönchengladbach forward Jordan was racially abused on social media after Tuesday's German Cup quarter-final defeat to third division Saarbrücken, the Bundesliga side said on Wednesday. "Disappointment and criticism are understandable reactions to losing a game. Hate, insults and racism are not and never will be," a statement said. United States forward Jordan is on loan from Union Berlin. On Monday, the 36 clubs in the top two German tiers announced a campaign for this weekend's matchday entitled: "Together! Stop hate. Be a team." The campaign will coincide with the International Week...
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What should be done about offensive art? It's a complex question that continues to plague museum directors and society at large, as works seen to perpetuate racism or celebrate the horrors of colonialism are rallied against, with increasing calls for censorship. In a unique response, London's Tate Britain is displaying a counter film by British artist Keith Piper alongside a controversial Rex Whistler mural, 'The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meat', which previously decorated the walls of the gallery's restaurant before being closed to the public in 2020 due to its racist imagery. Scotland's c...
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The dialect of the language you speak decides what artificial intelligence (AI) will say about your character, your employability, and whether you are a criminal. That’s the latest result from a Cornell University pre-print study into the "covert racism" of large language models (LLM), a deep learning algorithm that’s used to summarise and predict human-sounding texts. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, Meta’s LLaMA2, and French Mistral 7B are all examples of large language models. Euronews Next reached out to OpenAI and Meta for comment. Google’s CEO admits Gemini AI model’s responses showed ‘bias’ ...
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