Police in the US state of Michigan have released video footage of an officer fatally shooting a 26-year-old Black man in the head, in an incident that has spurred renewed calls for action to stop deadly police violence against Black people in the United States. Patrick Lyoya, 26, was shot dead on April 4 outside […]
In 1973, a ground-breaking film, Joe Bullet, was screened – for the very first time – at the Eyethu Cinema in Soweto. It was the first South African-produced film with a black action hero and an all-black cast. Benjamin Cowley, the CEO of Gravel Road Productions, described the film as “unique” because “at the height […]
The British royal family is bracing itself for a highly anticipated interview between Prince Harry, his wife Meghan Markle and Oprah Winfrey. In a clip that was released earlier, Meghan accuses the royals of perpetuating falsehoods about the couple. Just as that happened, the Palace said it was investigating bullying claims levelled against the duchess […]
A half-century after their deaths, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X remain two of the world’s most revered political activists. They were both respected leaders of the American Civil Rights movement, struggling for racial equality and freedom. But at the start of the 1960s, the media were constructing a conflict that stirred the civil […]