Play Video Play Loaded: 0% 0: 00 Remaining Time-0: 00 Unmute Fullscreen This is a modal window. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.... Advertisement X It is celebrated every year on Jan 2, as slaves at the time of Dutch colonisation were permitted to celebrate the new year in their own way.... Because of this, the festival came to be known as “ second New Year ”....

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Biden clearly does not believe that an intelligent, reasonable, melanin-blessed individual could possibly prefer President Trump in the November election.... This is despite the fact that Trump presided over the lowest black unemployment rates in U.S. history until the coronavirus pandemic hit and signed the most far-reaching criminal justice reform bill in history. Biden’s claim to our vote?... Let me compare my choices side by side. Video Let’s start with President Trump....

A troupe of Morris dancers has scrapped black face paint in favour of green, after members voted to end the tradition because of its association with racism. The Silurian Border Morrismen performed their annual Boxing Day dances in green rather than black paint, in order to avoid" confusion". Ian Craigan, Silurian foreman, said:" There has been some controversy for a long time.... We need to be on the right side of things." We want to be a side that can turn up and dance and everyone feels comf

“ We’re plenty of black people living in Alicante for the city council to be carrying out this type of representation, ” Bosaho wrote on social media.... However, the following year recurring pressure resulted in Madrid’s authorities promising they would stop asking white people to play the role of Balthasar.... At the time, Spanish news channel Canal Sur asked viewers if they recognised the man behind the make-up, saying:" he usuallyplays in white, not black ”....

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for December 22 Fox News Flash top headlines are here.... There are no greater examples of this than the increasing attacks upon our Founding Fathers and the heroes of 1776. The left has declared war upon the heroes who sacrificed all to establish the greatest nation on the face of the earth.... Tensions between the colonists and the crown were already quite high because of the Boston Massacre which took place in March 1770 as well as other oppressive a

Tiana is rolling down the bayou — again — not as a frog this time, but as a capable, well-heeled princess guiding Disney guests through Splash Mountain’s new “ Princess and the Frog, ” Mardi Gras-themed reimagining.... In the video, the group sat down with ABC News’ Kenneth Moton at Dooky Chase’s in New Orleans.... There, they revealed and discussed one of the first images from the attraction, featuring the princess lighting the way through the bayou aboard a boat rowed by Naveen....

On the show, her skin grows lighter and she gains a new fluency in the dominant language of the city. After the first episode aired on April 12 and backstage footage emerged of Ms.... Wong affecting a singsong accent — presumably meant to be Filipino — as she brushed dark makeup onto her legs, some viewers said they could not believe their 21st-century eyes.“ I was really shocked, ” said Izzy Jose, 27, a Filipino performer and educator in Hong Kong.... To some actors, it was an all-too-familia

Listen 7 min Share Comment on this story Comment Roger Whittaker, an avuncular singer-songwriter whose soothing baritone, virtuosic whistling and gentle interpretations of pop standards earned him an international following for more than four decades, died Sept.... Whittaker, who was born to British parents in colonial Kenya, sold an estimated 50 million albums worldwide, becoming a staple of easy-listening charts while cultivating a sunny and often sentimental folk-pop sound.... Although he w

For 15 months, not a peep was heard from the buttons and keys of his squeezebox.... But it turned their lives upside down, and still is: They are us all. The virus, such a minuscule speck of disease, has proved to be both a great leveler and great divider of humanity.... Capable of reaching into the cells of all of Earth's 7.8 billion inhabitants, regardless of who or where they are, it also has been the biggest stress-test of unity since World War II....