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Move to rename 'Bloody Sunday' bridge has critics in Selma

Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a ...

Hamilton calls out rival teams for being silent on racism

Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton called out rival teams on Thursday for not doing enough to combat racism, and said the ...

England cricket team to wear Black Lives Matter logo

England will join the West Indies in wearing a Black Lives Matter logo on their shirts during the three-test cricket series ...

Rights activists say Danes unaware of racism in their nation

Rights activists on Thursday accused Danish officials of being unable to recognize racism after authorities said the killing ...

Black-owned businesses see sales surge amid racism reckoning

When Mahdi Hashemian was looking for a bicycle for his 7-year-old daughter Zeynab last week, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, ...

Analysis: Trump fights to keep a job Dems say he isn't doing

President Donald Trump is asking Americans to let him keep his job. His critics are questioning how much of that job he’s ...

Formula 1 season starts 4 months later in a different world

Four months after the opening race was called off at the last minute, the Formula One season finally gets underway this ...

Prince Harry addresses institutional racism at Diana Awards

Prince Harry stressed the need to tackle institutional racism during a speech he recorded for Wednesday's ceremony for the ...

The Netherlands marks anniversary of abolition of slavery

The Netherlands marked 157 years since the country abolished slavery on July 1, 1863, with a solemn event in Amsterdam on ...

Citing racial bias, San Francisco will end mug shots release

San Francisco police will stop releasing the mug shots of people who have been arrested unless they pose a threat to the ...

15 investigations into French police for abuse, drug deals

French authorities came under mounting pressure Wednesday to disband a special police unit in one of the country's poorest ...

Danish authorities: No racial motive in man's slaying

Danish authorities said Wednesday that the motive behind the slaying of a biracial man on a Baltic Sea island was a personal ...

AP Exclusive: Hair weaves from Chinese prison camps seized

Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday seized a shipment of weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to be made ...

Analysis: What Trump leaves unspoken carries consequences

President Donald Trump seems to rarely leave a thought unspoken. Of late, though, it is increasingly clear there are things ...

Campaign for Black soccer player denied by England in 1925

A fundraising campaign has been launched to raise money for a statue to honor the late Jack Leslie, who was denied the chance ...

Women taken from African mothers by Belgium now want redress

Monique Bitu Bingi was only 4 years old when she was taken from her family in Belgian Congo and locked up in a religious ...

Women taken from African mothers by Belgium now want redress

Monique Bitu Bingi was only 4 years old when she was taken from her family in Belgian Congo and locked up in a religious ...

Calls for UN probe of China forced birth control on Uighurs

Politicians around the world have called for a United Nations probe into a Chinese government birth control campaign ...

Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War

Long a symbol of pride to some and hatred to others, the Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence ...

Pope urges US Catholic media to work to overcome racism

Pope Francis is urging Catholic media in the U.S. to work to overcome the “diseases of racism and injustice" in his latest ...