Say her name!” yelled Ruby Wharton to a crowd of Black Lives Matter supporters in Brisbane, as hundreds took to the streets of the Queensland city following the death of a 49-year-old Indigenous woman in police custody. The 23-year-old activist from the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance collective was speaking on behalf of a community reeling from the loss of 441 Indigenous Australians in police custody since 1991. To date, […]
London's police force has suspended an officer pending an investigation after footage emerged of him kneeling on the side of a Black suspect's head and neck. Footage of the arrest in north London on Thursday shows two officers holding down the handcuffed man. At the beginning of the clip, one of the officers, who was white, appears to be applying pressure to the man's neck with his knee. The officer's […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
