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Celebrating Juneteenth, the day the last enslaved people were freed in US
While the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the South in 1863, it was not enforced in many places until after the end of the Civil War.
Antiracism protestors rally to pull down Lord Kitchener statue
They claim the Field Marshal was a 'racist' and condemned his part in setting up concentration camps in South Africa during the Boer War.
Get Government’s ‘knee off the neck’ of BAME community, ministers told
Labour’s Dawn Butler recalled the final words of George Floyd as she called for action.
Church of England’s past links with slavery a ‘source of shame’
The Bank of England also condemned ‘inexcusable’ links that its former governors and directors had with the slave trade.
Jenrick’s housing bung handed Tory donor “extra £106 million”
Property mogul Richard Desmond donated £12,000 to the Conservative Party after the Housing Secretary green lighted one of his schemes.
Brits ‘disappointed’ at new blue post-Brexit passport
“The passport is black (not even blue?!), really poor quality, flimsy and thin, and the edges are peeling", one said.
Another U-turn as Government ditches Covid-19 tracing app
Efforts are now to be targeted on developing a programme to support the NHS Test and Trace service based on the Google-Apple model.
Thirteen-day-old baby believed to be UK’s youngest Covid-19 victim dies
The infant’s death was announced by NHS England in the daily fatality update on Thursday.
YouTuber jailed for threat to bomb hospital treating Covid patients
Matthew Wain was angry at a supposed lack of treatment at Birmingham City Hospital during the first week of lockdown.