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Former Black players say the league used ‘race-norming’ to make it harder for them to receive legal damages.

It took nearly a century for a race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to come to the attention of the American conscience.

Report on Virginia Military Institute comes amid ongoing efforts to stamp out racism and sexual assault in US military.

As many as 300 Black Americans were killed in racist violence that devastated the community of Greenwood in 1921.

The removal comes amid a continuing reckoning over symbols and statues that critics say honour the US’s racist history.

Imagine being forced from your home by the government, being imprisoned in a detention camp under armed guard and behind barbed wire - and then being required to join the military to fight for the nation that had locked up you and your family.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Former police officer convicted of George Floyd’s murder set to make first appearance in federal civil rights trial.

Steps aim to end housing discrimination and support minority-owned businesses on anniversary of Tulsa massacre.

In this 1921 image provided by the Library of Congress, smoke billows over Tulsa, Okla. For decades, when it was discussed at all, the killing of hundreds of people in a prosperous black business district in 1921 was referred to as the Tulsa race riot. Under new standards developed by teachers for approaching the topic, students are encouraged to consider the differences between labeling it a “massacre” instead of a “riot,” as it is still commemorated in state laws. (Alvin C. Krupnick C...

Survivors of 1921 white mob massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and their descendants demand reparations and recognition.