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The secret history of black Santas

America's biggest shopping mall grabbed headlines this week by hiring its first African-American Father Christmas. But black Santas have been around for a lot longer than you might think - and even played a role in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.

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Why the clothes you wear is a black and white issue in Thailand right now

​Authorities are urging calm as social media throbs with criticism of people who aren’t wearing black and white clothing to mourn the revered monarch and some arch-royalists take to reprimanding people in public

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Thailand in black and white to mourn King Bhumibol Adulyadej

​Bangkok citizens, and people around Thailand dressed in pure black or black and white Friday to mourn the beloved King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who passed away the previous day.

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London Film Festival opens with spotlight on diversity

The London Film Festival opened its 60th edition Wednesday with a spotlight on ethnic minority actors and filmmakers, reflecting a debate over the lack of diversity currently raging in Hollywood.

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Protesters march in Houston to honor blacks killed in police-involved shootings

​Dozens of protesters marched Saturday night in the fourth largest U.S. city of Houston to honor those killed in police-involved shootings as well as other incidents locally and across the nation.

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U.S. cities push for local laws to oversee police surveillance

A number of U.S. cities are introducing proposals to mandate community oversight of police use of digital surveillance technology as evidence mounts that black or poor neighborhoods are being more heavily scrutinized than others, civil rights activists said on Wednesday.

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Police-related violence unveils hard-healing wounds of U.S. society

The recent police-related violence in the United States has unveiled the hard-healing wounds of American society -- racial inequality and violent policing.

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Facebook makes little progress in race and gender diversity

​One-third third of its workers are female, while black employees accounted for just 3% of senior US leadership, its latest diversity figures show

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Obama responds to critics in conversation on race and police

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday responded to critics who charged he has not done enough to show support for law enforcement officers after two years of protests against incidents of violence by police against the black community.

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Obama: US police shootings of black men 'should concern all'

US President Barack Obama has said all Americans should be concerned about the frequent police killings of black men.His comments, as he arrived in Poland for a Nato summit, came after two more black men died in such incidents.

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Black boxes from crashed EgyptAir flight will go to France for repair

Egyptian investigators said on Thursday they would take the memory chips from the black boxes of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 to France next week for repairs.

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LIGO does it again: a second robust binary black hole coalescence observed

This event, dubbed GW151226, was seen on December 26th at 03:38:53 (in Universal Coordinated Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time), near the end of LIGO's first observing period ("O1"), and was immediately nicknamed "the Boxing Day event".

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The Top 10 Best-Dressed Superheroes

The Top 10 Best-Dressed Superheroes

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US media outrage over detergent ad is pot calling the kettle black: SCMP

The Qiaobi detergent TV commercial on the mainland is indeed racist and offensive. Yet, even more interesting, is why it seems to provoke outrage only in the US media and not anywhere else in the world.

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$181 billion Indian black money in tax havens?

Btween six and seven trillion dollars worth of black wealth lies hidden in tax havens across the world, according to a fresh estimate by a trio of senior economists from the Bank of Italy. Indians' share in this is estimated at $152-181 billion, by one calculation.

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"Teddy bear" removed from endangered species list

After 24 years of recovery efforts, the Louisiana black bear, the inspiration for the Teddy Bear, was recently removed from the U.S. Federal Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.

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Aussie coal miners feared to have black lung disease: union

Up to 1, 000 coal marines are feared to have contracted black lung disease, 30 years after it was supposedly eradicated, Australia's mining union says amid claims of a cover-up.