Black Lives Matter
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Derek Chauvin’s conviction in the George Floyd murder case could spell the end of police immunity
Courts and legislatures are increasingly finding fault with the qualified immunity extended to police forces.
Kent Roach, The Conversation
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Protests continue in Philadelphia for second night after police shooting of Black man
27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr was gunned down on Monday after he failed to drop the knife he was carrying.
Scroll Staff
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BTS’s $1-million donation to Black Lives Matter was an outlier in the K-pop industry
The Korean industry has a long history of staying out of political and social issues.
Hye Jin Lee, The Conversation
Trending
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‘Media, politicians totally clueless’: Sudhir Chaudhary on Zee News before leaving the channel
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Fact check: In Germany, Modi made several untrue claims about India’s growth
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British businessman wins defamation case against Republic Bharat for calling him an ISI ‘stooge’
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Time travel: A theoretical physicist explains the paradoxes of going to the past or future
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‘Dr. Arora’ trailer: Web series takes a humorous look at sexual problems
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The use of hip-hop by Black Lives Matter carries forward a long tradition of protest music
The connection between race and music begin with Southern blues and continue through jazz and rhythm and blues.
Tyina Steptoe, The Conversation
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Falling statues: Equating Gandhi’s imperfect anti-colonialism with imperialism and slavery is absurd
Gandhi severely damaged the notion of White supremacy. To throw away that work for a notion of perfect progressiveness harms the Black Lives Matter movement.
Shoaib Daniyal
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Black teenager shot dead by Dallas police was driving away, not towards them, admits department
The officer responsible for the killing has been put on administrative leave, though he has not been arrested or charged.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: Mexico mayor ‘marries’ crocodile to honour age-old indigenous ritual
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Watch: Devotees participate in rath yatra festival festivities on Florida beach
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Watch: First same-sex couples in Switzerland get married after ‘Marriage for All’ law is passed
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Watch: Comic trio’s hilarious recreation of ‘Annual Day’ dance performances in schools
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‘Not prime minister, he’s a salesman’: Watch Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao’s searing criticism
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Suspected of stealing his own car: Watch this US police action video, released two years later
The police mounted an assault on a Black Phd student suspected of stealing a car – which belonged to him.
Scroll Staff
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How the Jim Crow internet is pushing back against Black Lives Matter
A scholar of visual culture sees a transition happening online.
Nicholas Mirzoeff, The Conversation
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'There comes a time when silence is betrayal': Serena Williams speaks out against racism in policing
In her Facebook post, the tennis champion quoted Martin Luther King and described her experience of a police vehicle pulling up next to hers.
Scroll Staff
The Reel
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‘Dr. Arora’ trailer: Web series takes a humorous look at sexual problems
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Circle of love: Nagesh Kukunoor on going from ‘Hyderabad Blues’ to ‘Modern Love Hyderabad’
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Start the week with a film: ‘American Honey’, the flip side of the American Dream
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In ‘Shamshera’, a ‘masala potboiler’ and Ranbir Kapoor as ‘never seen before’
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Deepti Naval at the movies: Single-screen theatres, Rajesh Khanna and ‘Mera Naam Joker’
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Asian Americans are sending their parents letters to explain what the Black Lives Matter campaign is
21 translations of one letter have been made. The Telugu one was particularly difficult as the literal translation of the word black is often used as an insult.
Hannah Harris Green
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It's 52 years since Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I have a dream' speech
Scroll Staff