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PLAYBACK: The soulful Sixties crooner was 33 when he was shot by the manager of a $3-a-night motel in Los Angeles. The lingering conspiracies surrounding his death, writes Mark Beaumont, threaten to overshadow a life of music and civil rights activism – not to mention a voice that would go…

President-elect Trump announces key nominations and appointments, highlighting Dhillon, Paoletta, and Crosbie for crucial roles in his administration.

Since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, some white people have been wondering how they can work with Black people to fight racial inequality.

A federal investigation has found that the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers after he ran away from a traffic stop in 2023 exposed serious problems in the Memphis Police Department, from the use of excessive force to the mistreatment of Black people in the majority-Black city

The city of Memphis says will not agree to negotiate federal oversight of its police department until can review and challenge results of a yet-to-be-released Department of Justice investigation into how its officers use force and treat minorities

Local sheriffs could help ICE find and detain migrants, raising alarms from civil rights advocates

From the civil rights movement to the killing of Michael Brown, the deep orange dish has gained cultural power in the US – and comforted generations of Black families

Civil rights leaders are worried Trump’s administration could roll back the rights of US residents

Civil rights activist who organised the Bristol bus boycott, paving the way for the Race Relations Act of 1965