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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.

(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.”

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.

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.

The Los Angeles City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee unanimously voted to submit proposed police funding cuts to the City Council on Tuesday.

Mayor Levar Stoney announced Richmond Police Chief Will Smith’s resignation on Tuesday, following a violent response to the ongoing protests.

Bishop Aubrey Shines discussed left-wing paternalism towards blacks while attributing “systemic racism” to the Democrat Party.

Wednesday on MSNBC, network host Al Sharpton argued police would continue acting in a “demonic fashion” if officers aren’t charged and convicted in cases of police brutality.

A “fact check” by USA Today found scarves worn by several congressional Democrats last week, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Check Schumer, are linked to an empire that sold and traded enslaved Africans.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday defended President Donald Trump’s political rallies as legitimate political speech, in response to questions from CNN reporter Jim Acosta.

The Arizona State University student government encouraged its fellow students to contribute to various Black Lives Matter causes in a letter that was sent to the community this week. One of the suggestions was to use the Venmo payment platform to send cash to the unverified accounts of “Minneapolis activists.”

Wednesday on MSNBC, former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett said President Donald Trump’s executive order on law enforcement reform was just playing “catch-up” because he is under “enormous pressure” from the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd.

Ever wonder why Democrat mayors are never held accountable for the police departments they are in charge of…? Probably not, because the conversation about police reform has been so effectively hijacked by media propagandists, the idea of holding the person who actually is accountable accountable gets lost in the mess.

The national focus on race has led the makers of the Aunt Jemima brand to remove the iconic image of a black woman from its pancake and syrup products.

LOS ANGELES — Tyler Perry wrote “we must never give up” in a heartfelt first-person essay in People magazine detailing his thoughts on racial injustice and police brutality against unarmed black people in America.

The suspects in the murder of federal law enforcement Dave Patrick Underwood near a Black Lives Matter protest in Oakland, California, on May 29 have been linked to a violent far-right extremist movement known as the Boogaloo Bois.

Oxford University has published an open letter hinting at special treatment for students traumatised by the ‘brutal killing of George Floyd.’

Tuesday on CNN, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio and CNN political analyst April Ryan commented on President Donald Trump’s executive order on law enforcement reform, which is intended to address the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) claimed during a floor speech on Tuesday that the United States did not inherit slavery but rather “created it.”

A Fox affiliate source says 22-year-old Dylan Robinson has been arrested on Sunday for the alleged burning of a Minneapolis police station.

One in three voters believes that the United States is could face another civil war soon, as unrest rages across the country over issues of race, policing, and the upcoming presidential election.

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) saying the House bill on policing reform is not going anywhere in the Senate is “dangerous.”

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Donald Trump’s executive order on law enforcement reform, entitled Safe Policing for Safe Communities, “fell sadly and seriously short,” to meet the moment of weeks of nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the White House on Tuesday to improve policing standards after the George Floyd protests.

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” civil rights activist Maya Wiley claimed all she saw were “white faces when we’re talking about black bodies” when commenting on President Donald Trump’s remarks on police reform in the White House Rose Garden.