Fans have taken to social media to berate sportswear giant, Adidas after they announced on Wednesday, February 9, an end to sponsorship of West Ham Footballer Kurt Zouma. Zouma, a black French footballer has been under heavy criticism after a video surfaced on Sunday showing him kick his cat severally. His club have fined him £250,000 for the act, the pets have been seized from him while Adidas announced a termination to its endorsement of the footballer. Meanwhile in …
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Oprah Wifrey has admitted that she was surprised that Meghan Markle “went all the way there” with allegations of racism against the royal family during her interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Meghan and Prince Harry made a number of revelations during their interview with Oprah, which aired in March. One of the most shocking revelations was Meghan’s claim that royal family members had had “conversations with Harry about how dark [their son Archie’s] skin might be …
Eton College has apologised to the first black student to complete his studies there, Dillibe Onyeama, after he was subjected to years of racial abuse from his fellow students and then banned from visiting the school when he wrote a book detailing his abuse. Nigerian-born Dillibe Onyeama was ridiculed by students because of his race during his stay in the school. Boys from the school accused him of being riddled with maggots and asked him: “Does your mother wear a bone in her nose?” …
Meghan Markle has reportedly stated that her decision to leave the United Kingdom and move to the US ‘all makes sense to her now’, as she believes she was ‘destined’ to help fight systemic racism in the United States. According to Markle, who shocked Buckingham palace when she and her husband, Prince Harry announced early this year they will be quitting duties as Royals and relocating to the US, her ‘gnawing urgency to uproot from England’ was fate so …
Manchester City football club manager, Pep Guardiola has spoken out on the anti-racism protests being championed all over the world by Black Lives Matter protesters following the police killing of Black American George Floyd last month. Speaking after Manchester City beat Arsenal in the club’s first game since the Coronavirus pandemic halted global football, Guardiola admitted being “ashamed of what white people have done to black people”. Premier league clubs Sheffield United and Aston Villa took a stand …
A black mum, named Jessica Love Burnside has accused the Comer Children’s Hospital in the University of Chicago of discriminating against her sick son. In a heartbreaking video shared online, Jessica is heard crying as medics struggled to restore her son’s heartbeat after his heart rate went to “zero”. While crying, she accused the doctors of ignoring her all the while that she told them that her son looked like he was dying. She said that for hours, …