by Jim Heath | Oct 24, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Race, Trump
A Donald Trump supporter was caught on camera making a ‘white power’ gesture while the president was on stage in Florida. The man, in sunglasses and a black baseball cap, was standing directly behind Trump on Friday evening as he addressed a crowd at The...
by Jim Heath | Oct 12, 2020 | Business, Headlines, Race
The makers of Eskimo Pie ice cream have announced the new name for their brand, losing a 100-year-old trademark which is now considered racially insensitive. From 2021 Eskimo Pie will be known as Edy’s Pie – a tribute to one of their founders, Joseph Edy....
by Jim Heath | Sep 30, 2020 | 2020, Debates, Headlines, Joe Biden, Race, Trump
President Trump told reporters today, after a disastrous debate performance last night, that he doesn’t know who the Proud Boys are, after saying at the presidential debate last night that the far-right group should “stand back and stand by” in...
by Jim Heath | Sep 12, 2020 | Headlines, Race
Workers used a crane to remove a Confederate statue from its pedestal this morning and lift an enormous weight from a community still scarred by the racist violence of 2017’s Unite the Right rally. Crowds cheered behind metal barricades as the bronze figure of a...
by Jim Heath | Sep 6, 2020 | Headlines, Race, Trump
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, has described his ex-boss’ obsessive hatred of President Barack Obama in his upcoming memoir. In an extract of Cohen’s “Disloyalty: A Memoir,” Cohen claims that Trump described Obama...
by Jim Heath | Sep 2, 2020 | Headlines, Race
Protests have erupted in upstate New York after a newly surfaced video showed a 41-year-old handcuffed black man died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face until the ground until he stopped breathing. Daniel...
