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‘Jagged Little Pill’ leads the race for best new musical, followed closely by ‘Moulin Rouge!’ “Jagged Little Pill,” a rousing, of-the-moment show about a suburban family grappling with issues of addiction, sexual assault, transracial adoption and marital strife — just to name a few — scored 15 Tony Award nominations Thursday, the most of any …

Image copyright Reuters Image caption More than 12 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to work as slaves A major DNA study has shed new light on the fate of millions of Africans who were traded as slaves to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. More than 50,000 people took part …

Other companies like Twitter Inc (TWTR.K) and GitHub Inc adopted similar changes, prompted by the renewed spotlight on racism after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis in May Reuters | July 4, 2020 | Updated 15:10 IST JPMorgan Chase & Co is eliminating terms like “blacklist,” …

Loaded terms: Technology professionals have long used “whitelist” and “blacklist” for certain software rules, along with “master” and “slave” to describe the control relationship between hardware components. The ISPAB plans to formally urge agencies to abandon these and other terms that evoke the legacy of oppression that the Black community has experienced. Key context: NIST …

TMZ.com Eddie Murphy made a crack on ‘SNL’ at Bill Cosby‘s expense — and the incarcerated comedian didn’t appreciate it one bit … with his rep calling Ed a “Slave” to Tinseltown. Cosby’s rep, Andrew Wyatt, posted a scathing response Sunday to Eddie’s joke — and it’s pretty brutal. Wyatt, speaking on behalf of Bill, …

Court photos unsealed Friday involving a Jeffrey Epstein “sex slave” offer an alleged glimpse into the convicted pedophile’s twisted life. One image, which was collected during the execution of a search warrant on Epstein’s Palm Beach estate in 2005, shows “the bare bottom of a girl who appears to be pre-pubescent,” a Manhattan federal court …

On 6 August last year, 14 immigrant farmhands in Foggia, on the ankle of the Italian boot, were coming home from a 12-hour shift picking tomatoes in 40C heat. The minibus carrying them was registered in Bulgaria; the driver didn’t have a licence or insurance. The seats inside were wooden planks, and it was so …