Jeremy O Harris: ‘People say I wrote Slave Play for white people’
his fall, Jeremy O Harris wrestled with a problem unique to artists of color. He knew his Broadway debut, Slave Play, worked
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Black and Missing Inc.: missing black children are underrepresented in news
Three-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney was abducted from a birthday party on Oct. 13. Her body was found 10 days later
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Why Did Google Offer Black People $5 to Harvest Their Faces?
For companies creating artificial intelligence, data collection is proving to be among the most ethically-fraught aspects of the entire process.
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Facial bones help black people maintain youthful appearance
The faces of black people are less likely to reflect aging because of bones with a higher mineral content, according
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New findings show Type 2 diabetes develops differently depending on ethnicity
New research funded by Diabetes UK has reversed scientists’ previous understanding of how Type 2 diabetes develops in black African
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Police defend figures that say black people are 5 times more likely to be stopped and searched
A senior police officer has explained the reasons behind statistics that suggest a black person is five times more likely
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Nigel Farage forced to admit claim about black people in Oldham was false
But the Brexit Party leader immediately made another false claim about “Asian” people in the town Nigel Farage has rowed
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Chicago Congressman Says Cops Are the ‘Sworn Enemy’ of Black People
Democrat Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush has taken aim at the Chicago police union, calling it “the sworn enemy of black
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South African paramilitary unit plotted to infect black population with Aids, former member claims
A shadowy Apartheid-era South African paramilitary unit plotted to infect the continent’s black population with Aids, it has been claimed. An ex-member of the
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Cancer care worse for deprived and BAME Londoners, report finds
Cancer patients in London’s most deprived areas are experiencing worse care than the rest of England, a new report has
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Facebook and its ‘black people problem’
When it rains, it pours – and Facebook’s utterly sodden year continues to be flooded by accusations of bad governance.
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Racism against black people in EU ‘widespread and entrenched’
People of African descent are facing “widespread and entrenched prejudice and exclusion” across the European Union, a study suggests. Race-related
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Sherry Ann Dixon – A long journey home
Many Black people in the 1960s came to England as children, sent on their own to join family members in
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Black people more likely to develop dementia, new study finds
‘Black people I know have been reluctant to seek help for memory problems because of worries about being treated fairly, or
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