An Italian court sentenced a lawmaker to prison for making racist comments.

A far-right Italian party filed a racism lawsuit against the country's first Black cabinet minister.

Italy’s first black minister was forced to endure an ugly act of racism over the weekend when someone in the crowd threw bananas at her during a rally. Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s minister of integration, was speaking to supporters in the town of Cervia when the bananas came hurling from the crowd, falling short of the stage. […]