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TV News - HONG KONG - Two actors involved in a Hong Kong television serial which featured a Filipina character played by an actress who darkened her skin have apologised over the move. The decision by broadcaster TVB to cast a local actress to play the role by darkening her has... Read more at www.tnp.sg

A police officer in the US state of Michigan fatally shot Lyoya, 26, in the head during a traffic stop this month.

"As we continue to focus just in general about seeing how 18 months ago we were better off as a country, were going to continue to see black voters reengage

Social media posts by suspected shooter, who is Black, decried racism in the US and called for violent action.

National Urban League says median household income for Black people in US is 37 percent lower than that of white people.

Bev-Freda Jackson’s profile on The Conversation

Singapore News - A majority of Singapore residents feel that racism remains an important problem today, and those who feel this way tend to be younger and more highly educated, according to a recent survey. About 56.2 per cent of those polled think that racism remains an important problem,... Read more at www.tnp.sg

‘We don’t have the capacity to control mobs once they are unleashed,’ says the chair of Amnesty International India.

Joe Biden signs anti-lynching law named after Emmett Till, a Black teen who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955.

The US Senate is to hold four days of hearings from March 21-24 on Jackson’s qualifications to join the Supreme Court.