'To not have a call or an email in the at least 72 hours that they had the letter and then to learn about the media release... was a bit shocking.'

A new initiative spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement is looking to introduce reading materials that better represent people of colour to elementary students in Calgary.

'We are not a badge of approval for businesses or accused racists to put on display in order to deflect criticism,' Black Lives Matter YXE said in a statement.

'We really want to be there to stand up for all Black lives but especially, in our community, Black queer lives and Black trans lives,' said Pride London president Andrew Rosser.

The acoustic guitar-driven ballad features frontman Jon Bon Jovi singing about the death of George Floyd and the current state of affairs in the U.S.

Among many other bigoted comments, the late 'True Grit' star said he believed in white supremacy, during an interview with Playboy magazine in 1971.

A former Kingston, Ont., woman says she was repeatedly singled out at the Kingston Military Family Resource Centre because she is Black.

Colin Kaepernick's partnership with Disney is a 'monumental' example of how racial activism has moved from the margins to the mainstream, Meera Estrada says.

Twenty-five per cent of Trump's senior staff are nonwhite, compared to 36 per cent of Biden's senior staff.

In his verse, Eminem raps about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the Trump administration before paying homage to the late George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.