Progressives in Boston have had a statue of Abraham Lincoln – commissioned and paid for largely by freed slaves – eliminated as a result of some activists objected to it. Do even essentially the most constructive parts of our historical past should be erased? ...

The incoming Biden administration’s cupboard carries a powerful whiff of deja vu, and that’s no accident – the uninspiring president-elect is staking every thing on evoking a misplaced utopia that by no means existed beneath ex-president Obama. ...

This was again within the spring of 1998, and I used to be in the course of one of many nice afternoons I’ve ever spent. There have been two folks inside the primary corridor of the Negro League Museum in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., that afternoon, two days earlier than it ...

A pointy-eyed protester in Portland claimed she noticed a white supremacist hate image taunting her from a window of the BLM-besieged federal court docket. Additional investigation, although, confirmed it was really a basketball fan’s poster.  ...

The US Division of Protection spokesperson has locked horns with the New York Occasions (NYT) over a Memorial Day opinion piece saying that the US navy “celebrates white supremacy.” ...

A Google pc just lately achieved “quantum supremacy,” performing a calculation that’d be inconceivable on a daily machine. Some scientists are up in arms – not on the breakthrough, however as a result of “supremacy” sounds vaguely racist. ...

Hollywood has lots to reply for, movies like ‘Shanghai Categorical’, ‘Homicide on the Orient Categorical’, ‘From Russia With Love’, and for the previous century we've change into charmed by the magical nostalgia lengthy distance prepare journey brings. ...

There was late drama within the early UEFA Champions League kick-off between Galatasaray and Membership Brugge when a stoppage-time equalizer for the Belgian facet began a loopy chain of occasions that noticed TWO of their gamers despatched off. ...

Everybody loves sports activities, proper? Effectively, not at all times and never everybody, as a result of, whereas sport in itself is undoubtedly wholesome and enjoyable, skilled sport within the 21st Century has turn into an apologist for stark inequality. ...

The lionization of John Bolton as an unsung hero who received fired by Trump for not permitting the president to cozy as much as dictators is a humiliation for Democrats, former Senator Mike Gravel informed RT. ...