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New York (AFP) - Faith Ringgold, a pioneering multimedia artist who explored race relations in the United States and advocated for Black people and women to be better represented in the arts, died on Saturday at the age of 93, US media reported. Renowned for her pictorial quilts combining textiles and painting, Ringgold won international fame, with her art exhibited at the White House and in museums around the world. Born in New York in 1930, Ringgold's childhood was shaped by the Harlem Renaissance movement, which saw a blossoming of African American art and literature. In the 1960s, inspired...
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Washington (AFP) - The latest battle in the culture wars cleaving American society centers around diversity programs on university campuses, now restricted or banned in a growing number of US states. The debate pits those on the left, who advocate for boosting minority students victimized by deep-rooted inequality, and those on the right who say people should be judged on individual merit, not skin color. "The idea of present discrimination being the remedy for past discrimination... is inherently wrong," said Jordan Pace, a Republican member of the House of Representatives in the state of Sou...
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Washington (AFP) - Influential media provocateur and white outrage generator Tucker Carlson has spent years depicting America as a declining nation under assault by Democrats, Black Lives Matter advocates, 'woke' protesters, and communism. His hit TV show bombarded viewers with grievance politics and repeatedly depicted white conservatives as being in a fight for their very survival -- that is until Fox News pulled the plug on his nightly broadcasts last April. But Carlson, long close to former president Donald Trump, launched his own show on social media platform X, the former Twitter. Now i...
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Cambridge (United States) (AFP) - Students and professors at Harvard are feeling bruised but hoping for a return to calm after claims of anti-Semitism linked to fury over the war in Gaza ripped through the famous institution and other elite US universities. The historic campus in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was roiled in October by pro-Palestinian marches. The anger mirrored widespread concern among young, liberal American students over the civilian costs of Israel's war against Hamas after the militant group launched a bloody, surprise attack on October 7. However, the protests qui...
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New York (AFP) - An exonerated member of the "Central Park Five" -- a group of Black and Hispanic teenagers falsely convicted of a 1989 rape in New York -- has won a seat on the city council, in a victory hailed by campaigners. In a notorious miscarriage of justice, the five youths spent between six and 13 years in prison based on confessions extracted by police who promised them their freedom. A serial rapist later admitted to assaulting the white female jogger in the park, acting alone. Yusef Salaam, who won a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, will represent a Harlem district as a D...
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Pacífica (United States) (AFP) - As Dianne Finez helps her Latino and African American students through their first surf lesson, she remembers the time she first took to the waves, trying out a sport she barely even knew existed. The 20-year-old of Filipino descent grew up 30 minutes' drive from the beach in a working class neighborhood of San Francisco. "I never knew surfing was an actual thing," she told AFP. "It was also hard to get into the sport just because there's mostly white males." Finez is one of more than 2,000 young people who have been introduced to the waves by City Surf Project...
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New York (AFP) - Martin Scorsese, best known for his action-packed thrillers and gangster epics, now depicts an investigation into the murders of Native Americans in his latest film, "Killers of the Flower Moon", which previewed in New York on Wednesday. Adapted from a nonfiction book of the same name, "Killers of the Flower Moon" tells the true story of the 1920s murders and disappearances of members of Osage Nation on oil-rich lands in the central US state of Oklahoma. At a red carpet event at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, Scorsese told AFP his film about the 100-year-old crimes touched on bro...
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New York (AFP) - A group of US artists have spearheaded efforts to preserve musical great and civil rights activist Nina Simone's childhood home as a cultural site, auctioning artworks and organizing a gala on Saturday in New York to raise funds. Organizers hope the funding drive, also supported by tennis champion Venus Williams, will raise some $2 million to restore the property where the genre-defying musician first started playing piano. The modest wooden house is perched on a grassy hill in the small town of Tryon in rural North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. It had fallen i...
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Washington (AFP) - In the world of Tucker Carlson's hit TV show, America was under assault -- by Democrats, by health authorities, by Black Lives Matter protests -- and white conservatives were in a fight for their very survival. Anti-white racism was on the rise. Modern liberals hated Christianity. Migrants were invading. These were just a few of the claims made by the host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" -- who left Fox News on Monday after more than a decade as a thorn in the side of the Washington establishment. In broadcast after broadcast, the 53-year-old would appeal to viewers' outrage and...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday showered attention on three Tennessee officials targeted for expulsion from the state legislature over their support for gun control, as the fracas escalated into a major national row over race and representation. Biden spoke via phone with the "Tennessee Three" and "thanked them for their leadership in seeking to ban assault weapons," a White House statement said. Biden invited the three to the White House "in the near future," it added. The Republican-led Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Bla...
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