5 h. ago Jourdan Dunn donates blood and calls for more black heritage donors

The 34-year-old model, whose son has sickle cell anaemia, gave blood herself at Brixton Donor Centre in south London.

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6 h. ago Supermodel Jourdan Dunn donates blood for sickle cell disease and calls on Black donors

Runway model, Jourdan Dunn, donated blood for World Sickle Cell Day to raise awareness of the importance and need for blood transfusions - the NHS say they need 250 donations per year to meet demands

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16 h. ago UK sickle cell patients ‘get worse care than sufferers of similar disorders’

Study commissioned by NHS finds that sickle cell disease care lags behind that for conditions such as cystic fibrosisPeople living with sickle cell disease face substandard care as its treatment significantly lags behind advances relating to other genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis, a report has found.The study, commissioned by the NHS Race and Health Observatory and carried out by researchers at Imperial College London, analysed various measures of care for sickle cell disease between 2010 and 2024, including clinical trials, approved drugs and reviews of existing studies. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Call of Duty Black Ops 7 timeline explained: Why next game is going back to the future

If you're feeling a bit lost with the Call of Duty: Black Ops series, you're not alone, so we've put together a handy timeline to help you work out what's going on where in Black Ops 7

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57 h. ago Go viral for racist behavior, receive $750,000: inside the new extremist crowdfunding campaigns

The response to these online fundraisers signals the rise of more overt, public support for racist actionsShiloh Hendrix, a white woman based in Rochester, Minnesota, went viral after admitting in a video that she called a 5-year-old Black child the N-word while at a local park on 28 April.Though Hendrix was met with widespread condemnation and denouncement after the incident, she also raised over $750,000 on the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo, commonly used by extremists to fundraise for far-right causes. Many contributors to Hendrix’s campaign, which was created to “protect [Hendrix’s] family” after backlash, used racial slurs and Nazi symbols in their donation names. As of 1 June, over 30,000 people had donated to Hendrix’s fundraiser. The support and funding Hendrix received for her racist actions raised alarm bells for many, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which flagged the fundraiser as being used to “spread hateful talking points and legitimize their ideas”. Expe...

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3 d. ago Arrest after car hits punters outside Liverpool pub leaving one seriously hurt

Merseyside Police were called to a disturbance outside the Queens Arms pub on Black Brow in Huyton at around 6.20pm today, Sunday, June 15, and a man has been arrested

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6 d. ago Londoners urged to give blood with help from a classic Jamaican dish

With urgent calls for more Black heritage blood donors - a new initiative hopes to get more Londoners donating, one patty at a time

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8 d. ago PS5's Call of Duty Black Ops 7 aims to play with your mind by 'embracing the madness'

Activision has lifted the lid on the brand new Call of Duty and it's another Black Ops sequel - the seventh - where you'll be fighting in the near future using advanced technology

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1 week ago Will Call of Duty Black Ops 7 be available on Nintendo Switch 2?

It's planned for release on Xbox, PlayStation and both Steam and Battle.net for PC - but what about Switch 2?

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1 week ago Every single detail we know so far about Call of Duty 2025 release Black Ops 7

The theme of the upcoming game might surprise you, especially given what Activision delivered last year in Black Ops 6

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1 week ago Black Ops 7 confirmed for 2026, making Call of Duty History with first back

For the first time in the history of the Call of Duty series, we'll be getting two consecutive entries in a sub-series, as Black Ops 7 has been announced for release in 2026

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2 w. ago The true story behind A Widow’s Game is even wilder than the Netflix film

A Spanish true-crime drama about the so-called ‘Black Widow of Patraix’ is a firm favourite with Netflix viewers. Katie Rosseinsky looks at the harrowing case behind the streaming hit

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2 w. ago ‘These guys are idiots’: Sean Penn and Dustin Lance Black call out government’s Harvey Milk erasure

Team behind Oscar-winning biopic of the groundbreaking gay politician hits back at decision to remove his nameSean Penn, the Oscar-winning actor of the 2008 Harvey Milk biopic Milk and Milk writer Dustin Lance Black have spoken out against US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to remove the gay rights icon’s name from a navy ship.“This is yet another move to distract and to fuel the culture wars that create division,” Black told the Hollywood Reporter in a phone call on Wednesday. “It’s meant to get us to react in ways that are self-centered so that we are further distanced from our brothers and sisters in equally important civil rights fights in this country. It’s divide and conquer.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Teenager who left female 'police officer of the year' critically injured after mowing her down in Audi to avoid weed rap jailed for 31 months

Harvey Bell, 19, drove the black Audi Q2 straight at PC Tracy Hallworth, who had been called to reports of four males inhaling nitrous oxide balloons in a Sainsbury's car park.

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2 w. ago New research challenges everything we know about the Big Bang

A new theory has emerged, called the black hole universe, that offers a radically different view of cosmic origins

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3 w. ago Iris Mountbatten broke all the rules and called herself 'the black sheep of the royal family' writes CHRISTOPHER WILSON

Once 13th in line to the throne, Iris Mountbatten broke all the rules. She called herself 'the black sheep of the Royal Family ' - and no wonder.

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3 w. ago Sadiq Khan calls for partial decriminalisation of cannabis possession

London Drugs Commission also found disproportionate use of stop-and-search powers in black communitiesSadiq Khan has backed calls for the partial decriminalisation of cannabis possession, as a wide-ranging study suggests the way the drug is policed causes greater harm to society than its usage.In particular, it found, the use of stop-and-search powers disproportionately affects black communities. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Sinister Trump dims the lights for another White House ambush

Like a Bond villain startling guests with noxious gas, the president pushed his 'white genocide’ delusion to Cyril RamaphosaWe knew he was a bore and boor. Now we have learned that Donald Trump is an honorary Boer.When he turned his attention to South Africa on Wednesday, it may come as no surprise that the US president – who has been sued for discriminating against Black apartment seekers, called for the death penalty for the Central Park Five, pushed the false claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries”, and blamed an air crash on DEI – was rooting for the whites. Continue reading...

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