Minneapolis shooting: One video, two opposite views before the facts are settled
In a polarised country, high-ranking officials offered starkly contrasting, accounts long before the facts could be established
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Leon Diop: ‘The far right want to turn this into an immigrant problem, but they just don’t like black and brown people’
The founder of advocacy group Black and Irish on the childhood racism he experienced in Tallaght, overcoming his identity crisis, and the recent violence in Citywest
Former police officer sentenced to 33 months for violating civil rights of Breonna Taylor
US president Donald Trump’s justice department had asked Kentucky judge to imprison Brett Hankison for just a day over role in fatal raid
Conor Buckley, son of Christine Buckley: ‘I set up Human Collective to keep her legacy alive’
The colourful and sustainable urban leisurewear brand has quickly developed a cult following for its high-quality clothing and ethical ethos
Juneteenth celebrations offer another lesson in stark difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden
America letter: While the former president commemorated end of slavery in US, his successor moaned about federal holidays
On the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death, why is Irish theatre still so white?
Despite calls for cultural change, black representation on the Irish stage is still years behind, but there are signs of improvement
Black Lives Matter was huge, impactful and momentous. Why did it collapse?
The US seemed to be on the verge of a significant racial reckoning, but four years later black people are still over-represented in the numbers killed by police
Former US prosecutor on the justice system: ‘When I see kids come into court in chains, I can’t help thinking of slavery’
Debbie Hines’s Get Off My Neck lays bare the startling inequalities faced by black Americans in the US justice system
‘Samia is in Rafah. She says there’s thousands of kids living in tents. They’re all starving and freezing’
What’s Next For?: Street artist Emmalene Blake has been highlighting the suffering and hope of Palestinian people
Gregory Porter: ‘I remember my brothers protesting – eating after the bums! My mother was showing us how to live’
Grammy-nominated jazz singer’s new LP is a Christmas album with a difference, a meditation on family, love and loss
Derek Chauvin stabbing is latest attack against high-profile inmates in US prisons
Former police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020 was assaulted inside Tucson, Arizona, prison
Derek Chauvin: Ex-police officer convicted of George Floyd murder stabbed in prison - reports
Killing in 2020 unleashed wave of protests worldwide against police brutality and racism after officer knelt on handcuffed black man’s neck for more than nine minutes
‘The music industry wanted a Dublin Edith Piaf. They got Sinéad O’Connor instead’
People advised her to ‘just shut up and sing’. But there was no separating the singer from the song
This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade - nuanced, compassionate and surprisingly optimistic
The central theme of this unabashed polemic is to dismiss the notion that the experiences of black people in Britain can ever really mirror what happens in the US
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