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Two of China’s largest English-language state newspapers, the Global Times and the People’s Daily, published an illustration this weekend and on Monday showing what appeared to be a BBC reporter in Ku Klux Klan garb, interviewing a scarecrow in a field worked by black slaves.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) – A senior European human rights official is sounding the alarm about a rise in racism and discrimination in Portugal.

Creighton’ Greg McDermott has been suspended after a post-game speech in which he told his players they needed to “stay on the plantation.”

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Racist emails sent to the University of Texas amid a debate over the school song “The Eyes of Texas” were “abhorrent and hateful” but don’t truly represent the Longhorns’ alumni and fans, university President Jay Hartzell said Tuesday.

A college basketball coach is apologizing after using an analogy in which he told his players that they needed to “stay on the plantation.”

Seth Jahn, a Paralympian and military veteran, has refused to back down from his criticism of kneeling during the national anthem.

The Communist Party of China, through its embassy in Ottawa, accused Canada of genocide on Tuesday in response to the nation’s parliament voting to recognize that China is committing genocide against its Muslim-majority ethnic groups.

Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) expressed his opposition to “slavery reparations” Wednesday during his opening remarks as ranking member of a House Judiciary subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties.

Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder recalled his late father’s warnings about the Democrat Party while making a statement before a House hearing on “slavery reparations” on Wednesday.

Labour has released a new report calling on Britain to apologise for her empire, pay reparations to former colonies, and introduce a new constitution which virtually abolishes the monarchy and various other aspects of British heritage.

Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has said “muddle-headed lefties” should stop dragging Britain’s name through the mud and highlight its dangerous and expensive crusade to stamp out the global slave trade. 

San Francisco schools will be stripped of names honoring famous American leaders, including Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Joe Biden said he is abolishing the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission, which, he stated, is “offensive” and “counterfactual.”

Dr. Matthew Spalding said the 1776 Commission’s report rejects “the claim of American being by nature racist” as “one-sided history.”

The British pastime of gardening is rooted in “racial injustice”, said the Professor of Post-Colonial Literature at Leicester University.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Wednesday that it would not allow any cotton or tomato products from Xinjiang, China’s westernmost province, into the country due to the high likelihood that they were produced by slave labor.

The National Trust — our biggest conservation charity — invited groups of schoolchildren to lecture staff on the evils of colonialism.

Under the order of Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol. 

SF education officials want to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because the 16th U.S. president’s life was “stained by racism.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying accused America on Thursday of seeking to impose “forced poverty” on the nation’s Uyghur population by opposing their enslavement.

American Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents will seize any imports into the country of cotton products by the Chinese Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the U.S. announced on Wednesday, due to their use of slave labor.

Lobbyists for Silicon Valley tech giant Apple are reportedly attempting to weaken a new law aimed at preventing slave labor in China, the Washington Post revealed on Friday.

A U.S. Federal Court rejected a motion on Wednesday by the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Cuban former slave doctors who accuse the U.N. body of helping the communist regime traffic them.

The “1619 Project” of the New York Times, which falsely claimed that the American Revolution was fought partly to preserve slavery, has been named to the “Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade” by New York University’s journalism school.

The National Association of Scholars has made public a letter to the Pulitzer Prize Board calling for it to revoke the prize that was given to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her part in the New York Times’ “The 1619 Project,” which claims the motivation for the founding of the United States of America was to enshrine slavery.

The State of California will study reparations to black Americans, thanks to a bill signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The Nation, a storied left-wing magazine, pondered the possibility of secession in an interview published Tuesday morning.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is reintroducing a privileged resolution that would have House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) remove “any item that names, symbolizes or mentions any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery or the Confederacy.”

China allegedly pushed over half a million rural Tibetans into forced labor camps in the first seven months of 2020, mirroring a its concentration camps for Uyghurs in western Xinjiang.

According to the National Trust, it has links to the ‘sometimes uncomfortable role that Britain, and Britons, have played in global history.’

Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced legislation on Monday that would require the U.S. government to investigate the Pan-American Health Organization’s (PAHO) role in helping Cuba enslave thousands of doctors, an industry that generates billions for the communist regime.

Illegal boat migrants are reportedly making ‘pacts’ with human trafficking networks to serve as slave labourers in order to pay off the fees charged for crossing the English Channel from France.

House Republican Reps. Ken Buck and Rick Allen introduced a bill that would ban federal funds for teaching the New York Times’s revisionist “1619 Project.”

Conservative black leaders are pushing back against the New York Time’s “1619 project” with the “1776 Unites” U.S. history curriculum.

The Communist Party of China published a “white paper” on Thursday in defense of what are believed to be over 1,000 concentration camps for Turkic Muslims in far-west Xinjiang province, asserting that the camps are for “vocational training” and have allowed for the “facilitation of employment.”

U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow said the “1619 Project” is “one of the most significant attempts to propagandize history.”