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Though Donald Trump’s election as the 45th president of the United States surprised many, it didn’t come as a total shock to those who had been tracking his rise in popularity. His loud and often-inflammatory rhetoric appealed to many Americans who felt left behind by mainstream politics. But while Trump’s supporters may have felt that …
Samantha Bee has been the focus of Cancel Culture backlash ever since she made an admittedly poor choice of words while describing Ivanka Trump on her television show, Full Frontal. The 48-year-old comedian lambasted the Trump administration for the “evil immigration” practices on her political commentary show and claimed that Ivanka Trump was “oblivious” after …
There are many who claim that John Hanson was the first Black president of the United States, not Barack Obama. This tale is continuously shared on social media. Because many people believe that everything posted on Facebook or Twitter is the truth, lies will spread like wildfire and before you know it, it has taken …
People around the world have been showing support for the plight of the Nigerian girls that were taken from a secondary school by extremist group Boko Haram. Activists have been taking part in protests and joining online campaigns calling for the rescue of the girls but to what end? The internet and social media in …
In March 2014, a Belgian newspaper that published a Photoshopped image of Barack and Michelle Obama looking like apes in the name of satire had to apologise. After being accused of racism, De Morgen admit that they made an error in judgement and published a statement saying: When you consider the fragment apart from its …
US neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman who shot dead unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, is now a free man. Protesters have taken to the streets in the US as black community leaders demanded that the authorities pursue a federal civil rights case against Zimmerman. In Los Angeles, police fired non-lethal beanbag baton rounds after demonstrators …
Civil rights leader Rosa Parks was honoured with a commemorative statue in the US Capitol building in Washington DC, on Wednesday, 27 February 2013. Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus for a white passenger in 1955 sparked a boycott that galvanised the movement for equal rights for Black people …
President Barack Obama teased football star David Beckham about his age and his outside interests – saying it is a “rare man who can be that tough on the field and also have his own line of underwear”. Mr Obama welcomed former England captain Beckham and the rest of the Los Angeles Galaxy team to …
The killing of Osama bin Laden, first presented as a moment of national unity by President Barack Obama, has now become political weapon. Obama’s re-election campaign is portraying his risky decision to go after America’s top enemy as a defining difference with his Republican presidential opponent, suggesting Mitt Romney might not have had the guts …
Internet users are enjoying a 1991 television spot in which Obama — then a student at Harvard Law School — talks about pioneering African-American lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston. Obama – longer hair, no gray – taped the spot as part of the “Black History Minute” series run by the TBS cable station in 1991. Who …
‘It has been reported that an effigy of President Barack Obama was burned on a bonfire by members of the Conservative student association at St Andrews University.The university said there were “very understandable concerns” after the effigy of America’s first black president was burned on Friday evening on the town’s East Sands beach. Members of …
At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Senator Barack Obama said, “There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America — there is the United States of America.” Those were welcome and commendable words. Unfortunately, they appear to be only words. Since then, President Obama has divided …
