Black Lives Matter

The PSNI approach to investigating a Protect Our Monuments protest at Belfast City Hall contrasted with how the force dealt with Black Lives Matter protests the same month, police ombudsman Marie Anderson has said

‘Police treated war memorial protest differently than Black Lives Matter’

Art gallery pictured in the $40 million luxury underground bunker.

Company unveil $40 million doomsday bunker - complete with art gallery

Xahra Saleem leaves Bristol Magistrates Court where she pleaded not guilty to two charges of fraud.

Black Lives Matter protest organiser denies stealing tens of thousands

England's manager Gareth Southgate (Getty Images)

Man found guilty of sending racist email to Gareth Southgate

Xahra Saleem, one of the co-founders of the All Black Lives Bristol movement who was also named among 30 of the most influential under-30s by Rife Magazine last year, will appear before Bristol Magistrates’ Court in January charged with two counts of fraud by abuse of position.

Organiser of Black Lives Matter protest charged with fraud

News Letter editorial

The Ormeau Road saga was another example of weak PSNI leadership

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Will.i.am learns more about our ‘Black Brits’

Major moments from modern history have been reimagined as ‘ancient’ cave art

16 books to learn about racism and inequality within the UK and US

A Black Lives Matter event in Belfast on June 6, where protestors were fined.
Photo Pacemaker Press

It would be farcical now to prosecute unionists who protest against protocol

News Letter editorial

Authorities again seem to find little wrong in clear social distancing breach

The 27-year-old mother-of-three was found with life-threatening injuries on Sunday (23 May) (Photo: Shutterstock)

Five men arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of Black Lives Matter activis...

Sasha Johnson was found with life-threatening injuries in Southwark, London, on Sunday (23 May) (Photo: Shutterstock)

Black Lives Matter activist in critical condition after being shot in the head i...

Cuthbert Tura Arutura teaches his Irish sean nos dance class via zoom at his Home in Ballygowan, Co Down. The Black Lives Matter campaigner, who is originally from Zimbabwe, is spending lockdown teaching online Irish dance classes

Black Lives Matter campaigner teaching Irish dance classes online

It was the Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson’s first investigation into PSNI policy and practice

Confidence in police is not built when PSNI accepts feeble ombudsman report

News Letter editorial

Ombudsman report on Black Lives Matter is shocking, as is the PSNI rollover
News Letter editorial of December 23 2020:

Police in Northern Ireland have apologised for their actions during Black Lives ...

First Minister Arlene Foster

Arlene Foster: Perception of two-tier policing over Bobby Storey funeral ‘must b...

Lewis Hamilton will stay in Formula 1 to fight against racism and climate change

The government has released a report on racism in the UK - here's what it found

SDLP challenges DUP over Black Lives Matter decision at Antrim and Newtownabbey ...

Festival brings the globe together online

The audience enjoying the BBC Last Night of the Proms, at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Last Night of the Proms will be further diluted by axing of patriotic songs

(Photo: CARL COURT/AFP via Getty Images)

Patriotic songs Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory may be banned from the...

Donald Trump takes on former vice-president Joe Biden in the race the become US President (Getty Images)

Here are the nominees for the next US presidency - and their chances of winning

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Here's why the term 'Karen' became popular during the Black Lives Matter movemen...

Tommy Robinson claims he has been forced to leave the UK (Getty Images)

This is why far-right leader Tommy Robinson has left the UK

Sammy Wilson in the Commons

‘Public are sick of BBC bias and waste’ declares Sammy Wilson as he challenges m...

The statue of slave trader Edward Colston was brought down in June by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol, and it has now been replaced with a sculpture of one of the protesters (Photo: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

A new Black Lives Matter statue in Bristol has now been removed - here’s why

The funeral of Bobby Storey

Chief medical advisor: I’ve not seen footage of crowds at Bobby Storey’s funeral

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These 8 common words and phrases have racist connotations you might not know abo...

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Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen will not ‘take a knee’ before Austrian GP

Protests in support of the Black Lives Matter campaign.
PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

Council reviews lighting up policy after Black Lives Matter proposal

Wadsworth's apinting depicts Jesus as a black man (Lorna May Wadsworth)

A UK cathedral is installing a 'Last Supper' painting portraying Jesus as black ...

Lilian Seenoi-Barr, a Kenyan former asylum seeker who has been in NI for 10 years (and who is also a leading SDLP official), speaking at the rally

Bobby Storey funeral controversy: ‘Inconsistent’ police should quash our fines, ...

News Letter editorial

Michelle O’Neill must resign as deputy first minister, and the other political p...

Protests in support of the Black Lives Matter campaign.
PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

Council to consider lighting up buildings in support of Black Lives Matter campa...

Stormont is lit for Black Lives Matter on June 6. Jim Allister: "I am advised that normally a request to light the building must be received no later than four weeks before the date requested, yet this request was made three days beforehand"

Photo by Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye

Jim Allister: The rules for lighting Stormont were bent for Black Lives Matter, ...

Council buildings to light up in anti-racism message

"We apologise unreservedly to the Premier League, to Manchester City and to all those helping to promote Black Lives Matter," wrote Burnley FC (Photo: Shutterstock)

Burnley FC has condemned the 'White Lives Matter' banner flown above Etihad Stad...

The statue of Edward Colston, who was involved in the slave trade, is retrieved from Bristol harbour, days after it was dumped by "the usual suspects". Dr Dingley writes: "These instant revolutionaries strike chic radical poses that cost them nothing. Meanwhile, the interests of ordinary working people, who include most of the ethnic and racial minorities, are often ignored"

James Dingley: Radical gestures over symbols and statues do not solve real probl...

The Black Lives Matter protest at the Guildhall in Londonderry

Ombudsman to probe policing of Black Lives Matter protests

These are some of the statues that have been taken down as the Black Lives Matter movement continues to gain momentum (Photo: MICHAEL BRADLEY/AFP via Getty Images)

The statues removed amid BLM protests

Demonstrators in Atalanta have paid tribute to Rayshard Brooks over the weekend (Getty Images)

Rayshard Brooks was shot in the back twice by a white police officer -this is wh...

(Photo: Steve Finn/Getty Images)

These are the TV shows that have been removed from streaming services amid Black...

Some locals have defended the statue's presence in Poole (Getty Images)

This is why the statue of Scouts founder Robert Baden-Powell is set to be remove...

A recent message from Ben & Jerry’s promoting ‘transgender rights’ – just one of the many causes which the ice-cream maker, and much of the corporate world, now promotes

We have allowed politically-correct lobbyists to shackle our minds

Little Britain has been criticised for its use of characters such as Desiree DeVere, played by David Walliams in blackface (Photo: BBC)

This is why Little Britain has been pulled from online streaming services

This is what Yorkshire Tea and PG Tips have said on Twitter (Shutterstock)

Here’s why Yorkshire Tea and PG Tips are going viral on Twitter after Black Live...

You can sign these Black Lives Matter petitions online to enact change from home

Letter to the editor

Incredible and senseless scenes in which protestors gather together and endanger...

Protesters sprayed graffiti on the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Westminster (Photo: Aaron Chown)

Here’s why a Winston Churchill statue was defaced amid the Black Lives Matter pr...

Colston was involved in Britain’s slave trade past (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is why Black Lives Matter protesters pulled down a Bristol statue of Edward...

People take part in a Black Lives Matter protest rally in Custom House Square, Belfast on Saturday, in memory of George Floyd who was killed on May 25 while in police custody in the US city of Minneapolis. Photo: Rebecca Black/PA Wire

DUP asks Stormont speaker if the Black Lives Matter protests can be debated in a...

Protestors at the City Hall rally on Wednesday

Police conducting checks on roads ahead of Black Lives Matter protests