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‘Trucker Lives Matter’ street mural case fails on appeal

4 April 2023

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that a trucking group’s First...

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Top Navy Admiral Quietly Removes ‘Woke’ Books From CNO Reading List

8 May 2022

by John Konrad (gCaptain) The US Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Mike Gilday released an update to the CNO Professional Reading Program. Gone from the list are socially progressive…

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London Backs ‘Retain And Explain’ Policy For Slave-Ship-Linked Statues

8 October 2021

By Huw Jones (Reuters) Representatives of the City of London municipal authority on Thursday voted in favor of retaining in their Guildhall headquarters two statues linked to the transatlantic slave trade. The…

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Meet Melanated Mariners

12 April 2021

Last summer, in the wake of the death of George Floyd in the US during his arrest by police and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Buki Hough…

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Captain Mulzac WW2 Hero and America’s First Black Master Mariner

16 February 2021

When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, it faced a shortage of merchant mariners. With supplies in desperate needs overseas a massive sealift would require not…

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Meet The Navy’s GPS Pioneer Dr. Gladys West

12 February 2021

Looking back on the legacies of some of the amazing women who have contributed to the field of technology at sea. Trailblazers in their fields, these women broke down barriers,…

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Black History Month – Meet The US Navy’s First Female African-American Officers

12 February 2021

by Adam Bisno (US Navy History Command) Quite suddenly, and contrary to expectations, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt agreed to reopen the Navy to African-American women in October 1944. Not since World…

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Golden 13 – The First Black Officer Training Course

3 February 2021

In January 1944, there were nearly 100,000 Black Sailors in the United States Navy, but none were officers. That would change when a group of sixteen Black enlisted men were…

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America’s First Black Sailors

2 February 2021

“British gold and promises of personal freedom served as futile incentives among the Negroes of the American Navy; for them, the proud consciousness of duty well done served as a…

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BBC Bans Racist Football Terms & Commentators Ahead of Premier League

11 September 2020

According to an article published in the Sun, THE BBC have banned sports commentators from using “racist” phrases including cakewalk, sold down the river and nitty gritty.

Avoiding Racial Bias?

In an ‘avoiding racial bias’ training session, commentators and co-commentators were given a list of terms that must be avoided.

The BBC sent held an ‘avoiding racial bias’ training session for their broadcasters ahead of the new season

The Daily Mail reports that in the online training session staff were...

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