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Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow. In its first month, the Trump administration ordered the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland …

Over the last year, Hamilton hair-business owner Lohifa Pogoson Acker has noticed fewer Black youth and others with textured hair have been getting it styled, while some are visiting the salon less frequently.  “I’m seeing people  who I know have always had pristine looks, stretching their hairstyles for months more than they should just …

This First Person column is the experience of Vuyo Ginindza, who lives in Regina. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. It was only a couple weeks after moving to Canada from eSwatini that I realized this new society did not see me as I saw myself. …

A man arrested for drug offences was racially profiled by Ontario Provincial Police in Leamington, a Superior Court judge has ruled, deeming the evidence against him inadmissible as a result. Justice Martha A. Cook acquitted the man on one of the charges after Crown prosecutors withdrew the second.  “This is …

More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott’s visit to the White House and his relationship with President Abraham Lincoln continue to fascinate people. Abbott, a man of notable firsts, is included in Jill L. Newmark’s book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons. In addition to …

13 hours ago News Duration 2:58 Investigators say all three flight recorders have now been recovered from the deadly mid-air collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter near Washington, D.C., as salvage operations continue in the Potomac River. News Source link

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Headlines warning people to throw out their black plastic kitchen utensils live on, as do …

The black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, South Korean officials said Saturday, possibly complicating investigations into the cause of the disaster that killed 179 people. After analyzing the devices, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board …

Black Friday is here, and it’s hard to miss. Posters scream about big sales while emails flood inboxes — warning the savings are for one day only. It’s become one of the busiest shopping days of the year. But experts say it’s also a time when impulse spending can spiral out of …

Several federal and state agencies in the United States are investigating how racist mass texts were sent to Black people across the country in the wake of the presidential election this week. The text messages invoking slavery were sent to Black men, women and children, prompting inquiries by the FBI …