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Burnley Football Club has condemned an “offensive” banner saying “White Lives Matter Burnley!” which was flown over a match after three white people were stabbed to death in Reading, and vowed to “work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible”.

Agitators promoting Black Lives Matter blocked a major intersection in Lansing, Michigan, on Friday evening and pointed guns at a motorcyclist who tried to pass through.

Binghamton University announced this week that it will decrease funding for its campus police department to comply with recent demands by Black Lives Matter activists. The funding will reportedly be diverted to campus programs that focus on mental health issues. The university will also establish the George Floyd Memorial Scholarship to “support future African American Leaders.”

Even though the marches may have increased infections among protesters, overall infections did not rise because others increased social distancing.

The developers behind the megapopular video game Fortnite have reportedly removed police cars from the game in response to the national debate surrounding law-enforcement practices and the Black Lives Matter movement.

The publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is ploughing £100 million into increasing “diverse and inclusive content” in response to the Black Lives Matter unrest in Britain and the wider West.

A statue of Bolshevik communist despot Vladimir Lenin has been raised in Germany — as statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other historic figures are torn down in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the wider West. 

A leading scholar at the University of Oxford believes conservatives are afraid to stand up to the “zealous left-wing minority” who want to “erase and rewrite history” in case doing so prompts the mob to destroy their careers. 

Actress Amber Tamblyn fired off a tweet on Sunday wishing a Happy Father’s Day to George Floyd, and Eric Gardner, [sic] and Rayshard Brooks, men the actress declared “were murdered by police.”

A descendant of “Aunt Jemima” blasted the decision by Quaker Foods to whitewash his great-grandmother’s legacy.

A survey released this week shows that 47 per cent of the French public believe in the existence of “anti-white” racism in the wake of several Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, compared to 36 per cent who do not.

The 2020 election just became about China — in a big way. And the result could determine whether the United States prevails, or fails, in the fight to protect our freedom.

One man is dead and a dozen others have non-life threatening injuries after a shooting in Minneapolis, police there said early Sunday.

President Trump painted a dire picture of the nation’s future if former Vice President Joe Biden is elected president in November.

A second former Minneapolis policeman has been released from jail on bond following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota last month.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has gone viral. A clip from an interview he gave to Julia Hartley-Brewer on talkRadio has had more than 6 million views in just three days. What can Raab possibly have said that was so interesting?

Sixteen films including Aliens, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Flash Gordon, The Jungle Book, and Lawrence of Arabia have been given trigger warnings for their “outdated attitudes” by Comcast-owned Sky in the UK as a Black Lives Matter inspired Cultural Revolution sweeps the country

A public memorial service was held Friday for a federal officer killed last month outside the Federal Building in Oakland, California.

The ongoing U.S. protests demanding racial equality are “ramped-up culture wars” leading to “dangerous extremes,” according to an editorial in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda newspaper Global Times published on Friday.

Facebook allegedly canceled all meetings yesterday to celebrate Juneteenth, opting instead to invite all employees to a “day of learning” on racial justice, according to a source within the company who spoke exclusively to Breitbart News.

(AFP) — Belgium is due a reckoning with its colonial past, and things left unsaid must now be discussed, argues the Congolese-born 72-year-old who became the country’s first black mayor.

The French National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH) has released a report claiming French people need to “decolonise” their minds to end discrimination against black people.

China’s Global Times state propaganda newspaper angrily condemned President Donald Trump’s signing of the Uyghur Human Rights Act in a column Thursday by urging China’s rubber-stamp legislature to pass a law condemning “the deplorable U.S. human rights situation.”

The Lloyd’s of London corporate insurance marketplace and the Greene King pub chain will both pay reparation to the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community over historic links to slavery.

Singer Jason Mraz has pledged to donate all earnings from sales and streams of his reggae album “Look for the Good,” including his $250,000 advance, to Black Lives Matter and other social justice groups.

Boris Johnson’s Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, Dominic Raab, briefly took a stand against taking a knee, but caved quickly after receiving moderate pushback from left-liberals.

Thursday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his program by discussing the many double standards of the application of the law in the United States in recent months given political turmoil involving the coronavirus pandemic and the civil unrest resulting from the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police.

Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, the black man who died last month at the hands of Minneapolis police, is asking the United Nations to investigate policing in the United States for racism and “police brutality.”

17-year-old CJ Pearson offered a $10,000 check to the owners of Wilbourn Sisters Designs on Thursday — one of many businesses he is helping to save.

Thursday on MSNBC, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was too biased to be on the jury in the case of the Atlanta police officers being charged and presumably tried in the death of Rayshard Brooks.

A D.C. Police Union survey of its members released Thursday showed that of nearly 600 who responded, 71 percent are considering leaving.

A group of students is defending UCLA Professor Gordon Klein, who was placed on leave after he denied a request to postpone a final exam for black students. Student activists at universities and colleges around the nation have demanded lenient grading and postponed exams for black students in response to the social unrest that has followed the death of George Floyd.

Police in Portland, Oregon, quickly tore down a barrier erected by protesters intent on setting up a Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).

Hillary Clinton said that violent looters and rioters are a “tiny, tiny minority” of the Black Lives Matter movement and accused President Trump of trying to “hijack Christianity” in a soft-ball interview with British news broadcaster Kay Burley.

Alumni of St. Louis Catholic High School (SLC) in Lake Charles, Louisiana, created a petition demanding a “racial justice” curriculum at their alma mater.

Swathes of police officers in Atlanta, GA, are “walking off the job,” according to multiple reports published Wednesday evening.