Principles of slavery still at core of US’ socio-economic order: Prof. Ball
MNA – An American professor believes that slavery has never been abolished in the United States as its principles are still active…
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Protests show ‘American exceptionalism’ is over: political researcher
Iran Review – Lebanese political researcher Ali Mourad tells the Tehran Times that the anti-racism protests across the United States show that…
Black Americans still viewed as slaves by many white people, says anthropologist
Iran Review | Javad Heirannia: Prof. William O. Beeman, head of the anthropology department at the State University of Minnesota, is of…
MPs chant ‘down with America’ to support George Floyd protests
MNA – Members of the Iranian Parliament voiced their support for the anti-racist protests of people in the United States. In the…
Iran officials weigh in on US protests
Al-Monitor – In today’s Iran media review, Iranian officials have called out the United States over its response to peaceful protests. In…
Zarif: US maximum pressure hasn’t brought Iranians to their knees
IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message referred to US’ recent crime of killing a black American, saying…
US leaders should stand trial in int’l courts for deliberate homicide: Iran
IRNA – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Hojjatoleslam Ebrahim Raeesi said on Tuesday that the US leaders should stand trial before the international courts…
George Floyd: protests take place in cities around the world
The Guardian | Justin McCurry in Tokyo, Josh Taylor in Melbourne, Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin and Michael Safi: Public figures condemn police…
US revealing its ugly face in crackdown on protests: Iranian General
Tasnim – A senior spokesman for the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces lashed out at the United States for discriminating…
US should listen to its people, change its bankrupt policies: Foreign Ministry
MNA – Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in its twitter account on Sunday wrote that the US should listen to its people…
America ‘source of evil’, says Ghalibaf in reaction to recent brutal killing
MNA – Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf slammed the US for its long history of evil doings amid nationwide protests in…
Protesters circle White House grounds as curfews go into effect nationwide
Press TV – Hundreds of outraged US protesters have clashed with the Secret Service and police outside the White House for the…
Iran berates US over police killing, slams racism
Reuters – Iran took Washington to task on Saturday over the alleged killing of an unarmed black man by a white police…
Iran calls for justice as protests over police brutality ignite across US
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry slammed the “tragic murder” of African-Americans and called for justice as protests over police brutality and the…
Iranian Supreme Leader slams history of US race relations in ’#BlackLivesMatter’ tweet
Sputnik – Commenting on the recent protests and riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota, following the killing of George Floyd on Monday, Iran’s Supreme…
Foreign Ministry censures US Police brutality against black men
MNA – In a tweet on Wednesday, Iran’s foreign ministry once again criticized the brutality of the American Police against the black…
When will the United States transcend white supremacy?
American Herald Tribune | Robert Jensen: Now that the violence in Charlottesville has forced “white supremacy” into our political vocabulary, let’s ask…
The United States is synonymous with white supremacy
American Herald Tribune | John Wight: Was Trump’s Election, A Reaction to Obama’s Race and Policies? Strident declamations against fascism in Chartottesville…
Minnesota cop cleared of all charges in Philando Castile case
Press TV- A Latino police officer has been cleared of manslaughter in the controversial shooting death of an African American man in…
Ferguson protest leader Darren Seals shot and found dead in a burning car
29 year-old Darren Seals was found dead in his car on September 6th. Reports have indicated that Seals was shot in his car…
Movement for Black Lives releases demands on the State: A watershed moment?
On August 9th, it will have been two years since Michael Brown was gunned down by police in Ferguson. The killing of…
Obama says inequality, racism persist in US
US President Barack Obama has said America has better “race relations” now than when he graduated from university in 1983, but noted…
Protesters in Minneapolis burn US flag, demand justice for black man
A group of demonstrators in the United States have burnt the country’s flag in protest to the acquittal of a white police…
96% of Americans say Baltimore unrest to happen again: Poll
Almost all Americans believe the unrest that has recently gripped Baltimore will reoccur with regularity in the United States, according to a…
President Obama exacerbated racial tensions: Senator Cruz
US presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz says President Barack Obama has exacerbated racial tensions in the country amid ongoing protests over police…
Baltimore riots rooted in decades of exploitation of blacks: US historian
The riots taking place in Baltimore, Maryland is rooted in decades of neglect, exploitation and marginalization of African-Americans in cities across the…
Protesters return to Ferguson over Freddie Gray’s death
Demonstrators have returned to Ferguson, Missouri for a second night to protest the death of an African-American man, who died of spinal…
Michael Brown’s parents plan to file lawsuit against Ferguson city
The parents of Michael Brown, an African-American teenager who was shot to death by a white police officer last year, plan to…
Senior MP blasts US for large-scale violation of Americans’ human rights
TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Iranian legislator lambasted the US for violating the rights of its citizens, and said that the American society’s…
St Louis police release videos of Antonio Martin killing amid protests
The St. Louis County Police Department published three videos showing three different angles of a fatal shooting of an African-American teenager by…
US police kill another black teenager in Missouri
Another African-American teenager has been shot dead by police in Saint Louis, Missouri amid ongoing protests against police brutality across the country.…
Stop racial discrimiantion, Iran cleric tells US
A top Iranian cleric has taken a swipe at the United States for race discrimination practiced in the country, urging Washington to…
Iran’s coverage: Rouhani submits Iran’s next year budget bill to Majlis
Daily look at Iran’s late-breaking news and upcoming events: President in Majlis to outline proposed budget bill President Hassan Rouhani is in…
FM spokeswoman slams US discriminatory policies on colored people
Tehran, Dec 7, IRNA – Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Sunday that the conditions prevailing in the US points to…
A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Dec. 6
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has…
Brown family: Officer Wilson’s account of death crazy
TEHRAN (FNA)- Mother of Michael Brown Lesley McSpadden said Ferguson police officer Wilson “added insult to injury”, after he said her son…
Ferguson crisis troubles Obama’s careful race stance
Washington (AFP) – Barack Obama’s election as the United States’ first black leader raised hopes that his presidency would serve as a…
Obama admits racial discrimination in US amid Ferguson protests
President Barack Obama has acknowledged that the United States is suffering from racial discrimination amid protests over a jury decision not to…