4 h. ago Black Lives Matter Plaza's end — like its beginning — is a barometer of the times

It started as an ordinary D

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13 h. ago Woman with 'Europe's biggest boobs' to move to Africa as she 'wants to be black'

Tanning addict Martina Big, who was born white and now identifies as a 'black woman', is unable to tie her own shoelaces or use a seatbelt because of her 32T breasts

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53 h. ago Jessie J shares snaps of her son as a newborn as she's forced to deny pregnancy rumours

Jessie J shared a series of touching black and white photos posing with her baby son Sky Safir Cornish Colman to her Instagram to celebrate Mother's Day

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62 h. ago ‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complexIn a brightly lit gallery, they see the 66m-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex. In a darkened room, they study the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem. In a vast aviation hanger, they behold a space shuttle. And in a discreet corner, they file solemnly past the casket of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman in the US south.Visitors have come in their millions to the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s biggest museum, education and research complex, in Washington for the past 178 years. On Thursday, Donald Trump arrived with his cultural wrecking ball. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Inside Newcastle's historic Carabao Cup parade: 300,000 Magpies rejoiced in the streets as celebrities and legends alike bowed before their heroes for once in a lifetime scenes, writes CRAIG HOPE

CRAIG HOPE IN NEWCASTLE: It was an ocean of black and white, a force-of-nature convergence on the tributary running the mile between St James' Park and the Town Moor.

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3 d. ago Maybe I’m Amazed by John Harris review – a father and his autistic son bond through music

An honest and intensely moving book about the struggle of parenthood and the power of connectionOne of my favourite books growing up was my dad’s copy of The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics. I spent hours flicking through images of an eyeless, trombone-mouthed golden man swallowing naked bodies, and a full-page, black-and-white comic strip by legendary psychedelic artist Rick Griffin. It didn’t matter that I hadn’t yet listened to most of the songs – the surreal visual riffs felt like dispatches from an undiscovered country. Later, the Beatles became my favourite band. I chain-listened to the albums, read endless books, watched the movies and recited Beatles’ lore to anyone within earshot. “Oh dear,” said my mum one morning, as I reeled off an account of how a 40-piece orchestra improvised the rising crescendo in A Day in the Life, “you’ve become a Beatles bore.”Maybe I’m Amazed opens with John Harris’s 15-year-old son, James, ecstatically absorbed in a...

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6 d. ago Zelenskyy says Ukraine ready to observe ceasefire against energy targets following US

Ukraine's president says his country will proceed with a ceasefire prohibiting attacks on energy infrastructure following a deal brokered by the U.S. during negotiations in Saudi Arabia

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7 d. ago Russia and Ukraine agree to Black Sea ceasefire, White House says

The White House announced both Kyiv and Moscow had agreed to “ensure safe navigation” and “eliminate the use of force” in the Black Sea.

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8 d. ago Coronation Street storyline to highlight ‘systemic issue’ in maternity care

The young solicitor, played by actress Channique Sterling-Brown, will go into labour during the March 31 episode where her life is put at risk.

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8 d. ago La Cocina review – Rooney Mara gets stuck in in New York restaurant kitchen drama

The tempestuous chef trope has been done better elsewhere and this kitchen as a microcosm of exploited migrant workers is a disappointmentHere is a strangely exhausting movie, quaintly imagining the frenzied atmosphere of a New York restaurant kitchen as a microcosm of exploited migrant workers, full of macho shouting and self-conscious acting, with every speech a drama school audition piece. The Mexican film-maker Alonso Ruizpalacios has given us some terrific work in the past, such as his debut Güeros, his drama-thriller Museum and his rather amazing docudrama A Cop Movie, but I couldn’t make friends with this strained and histrionic picture. It is in English and Spanish, shot in black-and-white, but sometimes shifting to different colour filters, and inspired by The Kitchen, the 1957 stage play by Arnold Wesker.Raúl Briones (who was an officer in A Cop Movie) plays Pedro, one of the chefs, a hot-tempered guy who has already had a brawl in the kitchen the previous night. Anna Díaz...

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1 week ago A Place In The Sun's Jean Johansson told she was ‘not Black enough, not white enough and too fat’ for roles

The 43-year-old TV host from Port Glasgow opened up about facing harsh rejection

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1 week ago A Place In The Sun's Jean Johansson says she was reduced to tears after being told she was 'not black enough, not white enough and too fat' for jobs

A Place In The Sun presenter Jean Johansson says she has been reduced to tears after being told she was 'not black enough, not white enough and too fat' for jobs in previous years.

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1 week ago What DID they do to me in that orphanage?: Haunting question ANDREW PIERCE was left with after he saw pictures of himself as a baby for the first time

As I tore open the brown envelope, three small black-and-white photographs slipped from a single sheet of paper on to my desk. I gazed at them and thought my heart might miss a beat.

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1 week ago Kanye West's sick posts about ex Kim Kardashian as he's pictured dazed on a night out with daughter North

West took aim at his ex-wife Kardashian, 44, in a series of tweets in which he said that he was put off by a white woman being in control of his Black children.

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1 week ago Snow White review – Disney’s exhaustingly awful reboot axes the prince and makes the dwarves mo

With tiresome pseudo-progressive additions that tie the whole thing in knots, this is a waste of estimable entertainers like Rachel Zegler and Gal GadotThat title is a description of the page on which new Hollywood ideas get written. Here is a pointless new live-action musical version of the Snow White myth, a kind of un-Wicked approach to the story and a merch-enabling money machine. Where other movies are playfully reimagining the backstories of famous villains, this one plays it straight, but with carefully curated revisionist tweaks. These are all too obviously agonising and backlash-second-guessing, but knowing that at some basic level the brand identity has to be kept pristine. This is particularly evident in the costume design, with which the wicked witch gets a pointy dark crown and skull-hugging black balaclava and Snow White is lumbered with a supermarket-retail tweenie outfit with puffy-sleeved shoulders. Those otherwise estimable performers Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot ar...

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1 week ago Driver accused of killing motorist in 'dangerous' manoeuvre denies telling 'bare

Dale Groves, 29, was driving a white Ford Ka which drove into the side of a black Renault Clio driven by Gareth Davies in Fochriw Road, Merthyr Tydfil

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1 week ago ‘He threw body piercing parties and lay on a bed of nails’: the wild life of body modification guru Fakir Musafar

A new documentary explores how the pioneer of the ‘modern primitive’ subculture used painful BDSM practices to access new spiritual planes – outraging conventional societyIn the opening moments of A Body to Live in, a documentary by American film-maker Angelo Madsen, we are confronted with two black-and-white photographs. Taken in 1944 by the teenage Roland Loomis, they show him stripped to his underwear, his waist heavily restricted by a leather belt, a rope wrapped several times around his neck.Loomis later renamed himself Fakir Musafar and became one of the founders of the modern primitive movement – a subculture that revolves around body modification practices including branding, suspension, contortion and binding. A Body to Live in, which premieres internationally at London’s BFI Flare film festival this week, dissects Musafar’s body of work, which explored the tension between masculinity and femininity, pain and pleasure, spirituality and S&M. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Evil White couple treated adopted Black children as 'slaves' and locked some in shed

Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz have been convicted of the mistreatment of their adopted children, and Whitefeather was also found guilty of civil rights violations based on race

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2 w. ago White glamour model Martina Big, 36, who 'identifies as black' after having tanning injections announces plan to 'move to Africa'

Martina Big, the German-born white glamour model who has had tanning injections to darken her skin because she 'identifies as a black woman', has shared her plans to 'move to Africa'.

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2 w. ago Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project review – electric film about radical thinker and poet

Featuring interviews and archive footage of the brilliant civil rights activist, the readings of her poems will have the hairs on the back of your neck standing upNikki Giovanni, bestselling American poet and civil rights activist, blazed on to the scene in the 1960s. In this documentary, completed before she died in December, we watch Giovanni in her late 70s, reigning over sold-out public appearances. On stage she recites poems about love, race and gender and in between, with the timing of a standup comedian, she has the auditorium erupting in whoops and laughter. Posing for selfies, a woman tells Giovanni she named her daughter after her; another says she wrote to her on the verge of dropping out of college. “You wrote back. I’m a teacher now!”In archive footage, Giovanni as a young woman, reads her 1968 poem Nikki-Rosa, which has a line about how white people fail to understand the lives of black people: “they’ll probably talk about my hard childhood / and never understand that ...

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