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Gérard Depardieu publicly denied ever raping or sexually assaulting anyone in a letter published Monday by a French newspaper. Depardieu, 74, was charged in 2020 with raping a young actress at his home. In a French news investigation three years later…
Comic book author and graphic novelist wants to spend time in the role tackling industry’s lack of diversityThe comic book author and graphic novelist Bobby Joseph has become the first person of colour to be appointed the UK’s comics laureate.Joseph, w…
Andy Burnham, Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, says news would be ‘profoundly depressing’In a report last week the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the current parliament was likely to mark “a decisive and permanent shift to a higher-tax economy”.I…
Members of the African-Caribbean community will be given freedom of the borough status for their ‘exceptional contribution’ to the areaMembers of the Windrush generation and the African-Caribbean community in East Staffordshire are going to be given th…
Exclusive: former staff member at equality watchdog says she was vilified, silenced and punished for speaking up on raceA former staff member at the Equality and Human Rights Commission is suing the watchdog, alleging race discrimination and unfair dis…
Maga darling Joseph C Roberts arrested after Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner’s remains found on San Francisco Bay shorelineA former San Francisco Republican official who claimed to be a victim of the #MeToo movement has been accused of dismembering his …
Hundreds of events lined up for October, with focus on role black women have played in shaping British historyBlack History Month launches with hundreds of events planned across the UK in October, with celebrations focusing on the contributions of blac…
Rights groups hope to bring end to discrimination they say has gone unaddressed by successive governmentsFrance must end the widespread racial profiling of people of black and north African heritage who are routinely stopped by police and asked to show…
Exonerated of allegations of evidence suppression in case of firefighter Tasered by police, Jennifer Izekor criticises ‘siege mentality’ in British policingA black former commissioner of the police watchdog, exonerated of misconduct, has accused the Me…
Campaigners say findings are a wake-up call and highlight ‘chronic level of racial disparities’ in UKJust under half of black Britons are “definitely proud” or “somewhat proud” to be British, according to the largest survey of its kind to date.The land…