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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden established a national monument on Friday to commemorate a 1908 attack on a Black community by a white mob in the midwestern state of Illinois. "It's so important for our children and grandchildren to understand what happened," Biden said at a White House signing ceremony to designate the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument. "More than 100 years ago this week a mob unleashed race riots in Springfield," the president said. "It shocked the conscience of the nation." The violence which took place August 14-16, 1908 in Springfield, Illinois, the h...
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YouTube shut down the far-right Portuguese ultranationalist Grupo 1143's video channel after a news article highlighted its extremist content. The online video-sharing platform said on Tuesday it blocked the account for violating its policy against hate speech after a New York Times piece took a closer look at social media posts assailing immigrants and cited examples in the UK, Portugal, and other countries where the "vitriolic language is now spilling onto the streets.” Grupo 1143 is led by Mario Machado, a neo-Nazi activist whose anti-Islam and anti-migrant campaigns have been gaining atten...
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An act of vandalism has recoloured the skin of Italian national team volleyball player Paola Egonu on the work of masked street artist Laika, which appeared in Rome between the night of 11 and 12 August. Enogu was elected best player of the Olympic tournament in Paris, and was born in Cittadella, in the province of Padua, to parents of Nigerian nationality. The mural entitled 'Italianità', which appeared in front of the Rome headquarters of CONI, the Italian National Olympic Committee, was defaced with pink spray paint on the Italian champion's skin. Also bleached was the message on the ball. ...
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A mural dedicated to an Italian volleyball star has been defaced with racist graffiti by unknown perpetrators, authorities in Rome said on Tuesday. The work depicting Paola Egonu, who was part of Italy's gold medal-winning volleyball team at the Paris Olympics, was vandalized on Monday night, hours after it was installed in front of the headquarters of the Italian National Olympic Committee. In the piece, Egonu - who was born in northern Italy to two Nigerian immigrants and has been an Italian citizen since 2014 - is shown taking a serve, with the colours of the Italian flag and the word "Ital...
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A mural dedicated to an Italian volleyball star has been defaced with racist graffiti by unknown perpetrators, authorities in Rome said on Tuesday. The work depicting Paola Egonu, who was part of Italy's gold medal-winning volleyball team at the Paris Olympics, was vandalized on Monday night, hours after it was installed in front of the headquarters of the Italian National Olympic Committee. In the piece, Egonu - who was born in northern Italy to two Nigerian immigrants and has been an Italian citizen since 2014 - is shown taking a serve, with the colours of the Italian flag and the word "Ital...
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A mural dedicated to an Italian volleyball star has been defaced with racist graffiti by unknown perpetrators, authorities in Rome said on Tuesday. The work depicting Paola Egonu, who was part of Italy's gold medal-winning volleyball team at the Paris Olympics, was vandalized on Monday night, hours after it was installed in front of the headquarters of the Italian National Olympic Committee. In the piece, Egonu - who was born in northern Italy to two Nigerian immigrants and has been an Italian citizen since 2014 - is shown taking a serve, with the colours of the Italian flag and the word "Ital...
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Paris (AFP) - Doug Emhoff, the Second Gentleman of the United States as husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, on Thursday announced the US would make an exceptional contribution over $2 million to UN cultural agency UNESCO to boost the fight against anti-Semitic hatred. The profile of Emhoff, a former top entertainment lawyer, has risen sharply in recent weeks after Harris became the Democratic candidate in US presidential elections against Republican Donald Trump when President Joe Biden stood aside. This has raised the prospect he could become the first ever First Gentleman of the United ...
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Left-wing anti-racism protesters rallied in London on Wednesday to counter far-right agitators amid concerns of another night of violence across the country.
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Belfast has experienced a second night of violent disorder as rioters threw petrol bombs and missiles at police. At least one police vehicle was burned and several blazes lit in the Sandy Row and Donegall Road areas of south Belfast. It follows a similar night of chaos on Saturday, when several hundred anti-immigration protesters threw fireworks as they marched through the city. Deputy District Judge Liam McStay in Belfast Magistrates’ Court refused bail for two men who had participated in the unrest, which saw a violent mob trash businesses and set a supermarket on fire. The police operation ...
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Several British police officers have been injured as far-right activists clash with anti-racism protesters amid violent demonstrations following the stabbing of multiple children at a dance class in Southport that left three girls dead and several wounded. On Saturday, Merseyside Police said a number of officers were injured in “serious disorder” in the centre of Liverpool, about 32 kilometres away from the scene of the stabbing attack. In a series of posts on the social media platform X, the force said there is "no place for this despicable behaviour which disrupts the lives of members of the...
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