Influential filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, whom many consider the godfather of modern Black cinema, has died. He was 89.
A century after arson decimated its Chinatown, San Jose to apologize for past racism and injustices
Local lawmakers in San Jose, California, are expected to vote on a resolution next week that would apologize to Chinese immigrants and their descendants for the role the city played in "systemic and institutional racism" more than a hundred years after one of the city's thriving Chinatowns was burned by arsonists. San Jose was once home to five Chinatowns built up by immigrants arriving to the U.S.
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