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UK short of 'black blood': Only 1% active 'black' donors as sickle cell surges to top genetic condition
Abhishek Awasthi •As part of the campaign, influential black people have been asked to motivate people to donate blood and address the bigger cause which is to help black people fight deadly diseases
More than 119K people hurt by riot-control weapons since 2015 says report
•Physicians for Human Rights and the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations, which produced the report, called it 'the most comprehensive study on crowd-control weapons to date'
Cancelling Dilbert: BLM-style reverse racism to fuel White identity politics
Abhijit Majumder •The consequences of covering up crime and racism in the name of race cannot ever be good. It will most likely harm those carrying out the daily cover-up and riddling Western book, policy, and lives with vicious wokeness
US: Black Lives Matter founder's cousin dies after police arrest
Fp Staff •Los Angeles Police Department have released a body camera footage of the encounter which took place on January 3 which shows Anderson begging for help as officers hold him down
US: Bail fund organisation faces shut down after man shoots Asian waiter 17 times within a week after release
Fp Staff •As per the US media reports, The Bail project along with several other such NGOs came into existence after the Black Live Matter protests erupted in 2020 to assist suspects who can’t afford bail bonds
One for the history books: Who is Leila Mottley, the youngest-ever writer on the Booker long list?
Fp Explainers •The youngest writer ever to make it to the Booker longlist, Mottley, 20, has penned a gripping tale of juvenile sexual abuse in 'Nightcrawling'. Her entry has literary enthusiasts talking about her short but shining career and a book that is all the more relevant in a post-Black Lives Matter America
Disunited State of America: How a superpower is crumbling before our eyes
Abhijit Majumder •The US has been steadily losing the will to wield power and is distracted and deeply internally divided as if it has cultivated its worst enemies within and they are now hollowing out its soul
Priyanka Chopra's acknowledgement that a northeastern actor should've played Mary Kom is a sign of her evolution
Chintan Girish Modi •Priyanka Chopra's experience of working in Hollywood, and the Black Lives Matter movement, seems to have made her aware of the need for diversity and representation back home in Bollywood.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander to retire golden coach with slavery images after racism row
•In the Netherlands, as in other European nations, debate over the colonial past and slavery has resurfaced since the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States
Book review | With Unbound, #MeToo founder Tarana Burke explains why she felt the need to reclaim the movement
Chintan Girish Modi •"If these white women start using this hashtag, and it gets popular, they will never believe that a Black woman in her 40s from the Bronx has been building a movement for the same purposes, using those exact words, for years now."