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                    [Title] => Calls for boycott of Oscars grow over diversity of nominees
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Amid calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over its all-white acting nominees and Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith both announcing they would sit out this year's ceremony, the academy's president said it was time for major changes — and soon.

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During Donald Trump's opening "Saturday Night Live" monologue, he was heckled by someone offstage calling him a racist.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-08 01:20:01 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325843 [AuthorName] => Frazier Moore [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20151108/Trump%20SNL%20Protest_Diol.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1514984 [Title] => Tarantino joins activists to protest police brutality in NY [Summary] =>

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino joined hundreds of demonstrators waving signs, shouting through megaphones and marching along the city's streets on Saturday to protest police brutality nationwide.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-25 11:47:02 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1431690 [Title] => Bloody yesterday 50th anniversary: Thousands crowd Selma bridge [Summary] =>

Thousands of people crowded an Alabama bridge on yesterday to commemorate a bloody confrontation 50 years ago between police and peaceful protesters that was a landmark in the civil rights movement and helped bring about the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-09 05:21:02 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1440682 [AuthorName] => Kim Chandler and Phillip Lucas [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1405154 [Title] => 2 NYC police officers killed in ambush shooting [Summary] =>

The two New York City police officers who were ambushed and shot to death in their vehicle were "quite simply, assassinated," and the suspect had made Instagram posts that were very anti-police, the police commissioner said.

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The white police officer who killed Michael Brown has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, his attorney said Saturday, nearly four months after the fatal confrontation with the black 18-year-old that led to protests across the US.

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Thousands of people expressing grief, anger and hope for a better future marched peacefully through Staten Island on yesterday to protest the chokehold death of an unarmed black man by a white police officer.

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Reaction to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banning Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life Tuesday for racist remarks:

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Protesters in multiple cities across the United States Saturday gathered to call for justice for Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer last year.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-21 11:00:38 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 818339 [Title] => Rodney King, key figure in LA riots, dies at 47 [Summary] =>

Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in U.S. history, was found at the bottom of his swimming pool early Sunday and later pronounced dead. He was 47.

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