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Catch up on the latest world news, investigations, and analysis told from a Black perspective.

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Black immigrants like those from Haiti are of particular concern to immigration activists worried about the Biden administration deporting them to nations either mired in conflict, poverty, both or worse.

Recently confirmed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he recommended the airstrike in Syria that targeted a militia supported by Iran that attacked Americans in Iraq. 

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Nelson Mandela was given a life sentence in 1964 after being convicted of plotting to sabotage the South African government, and he remained in prison until Feb. 2, 1990.

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It's seldom remembered that Black people were also casualties of the genocidal Nazi terrorism known as the Holocaust.

Kristen Gray, a Black American woman accused of bragging in a Twitter thread about living in the Indonesian resort of Bali during the pandemic, is facing deportation for that same social media activity, according to reports.

Parts of Europe were in full panic mode as public health officials there reported what seemed to be the U.K. outbreak of a new mutant strain of Covid-19 that is described as being exponentially more contagious.

334 students from the Kankara Government Science Secondary School in Katsina were returned to safety on Thursday after a week of captivity.

Dutch attitudes toward Black Pete are changing.

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Every Dec. 5, people across the Netherlands paint their faces black and don afro wigs to celebrate the arrival of Black Pete, the blackface servant of St. Nicholas who helps to deliver presents.

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Regardless of which country launched the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, there seems to be one unverified consensus on social media: Donald Trump was probably involved in some way, shape or fashion.

Weeks of demonstrations against police violence in Nigeria culminated in violence when army soldiers reportedly opened fire on protesters speaking out against the country's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

The Supreme Court of Jamaica has ruled in favor of a school that demanded a student cut her dreadlocks over "hygiene" reasons in order to attend classes.