After the last play is run and the lights go off in Minneapolis’s US Bank Stadium, the end of the 52nd Super Bowl on Sunday night will mark the conclusion of a football season dominated by coverage of kneeling football players. The kneeling protests, which sought to draw attention to police violence and racial injustice in …

Not long after, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback began his protest against police brutality and racial injustice by first sitting, and then taking a knee, during the national anthem. His actions—praised by some and heavily criticized by others—eventually inspired other football players and athletes to also take a knee in …

Presidential visit? Cue presidential protests. The visit Monday by President Trump to Cincinnati has prompted his critics to set up a protest starting at 1 p.m. in Blue Ash. Progressive group “For Ohio’s Future” will be rallying near Blue Ash’s Sheffer Corp., where Trump plans to tout the new Republican tax law. “We will be …

Sherry Todd, 53, cleans up her tent at a homeless encampment where she lives off Felipe Avenue next to the 101 and 280 freeways in San Jose, California, on Saturday, February 3, 2018. CalTrans recently notified residents of San Jose’s largest homeless encampment since the “Jungle” that it will evict them with a massive …

Last Friday’s protests on both campuses of the state run university was staged by aggrieved students chanting their revolutionary slogans and disrupting normal activities at the university. The protest, which begin at about 9.32 a.m., also obstructed the free movement of vehicles, while many business centers were closed in …

In a divided America, Super Bowl Sunday holds a special place in the national psyche. Even people who don’t like the New England Patriots or Philadelphia Eagles will tune into the game tonight, more than 100 million in total. And yet, poll numbers show the National Football League and, more broadly, the game of football …

(AP) — - An Army veteran who always turns the Super Bowl into a bowling party in a small Michigan town is changing the theme this year as his own protest against the NFL’s protesting players. Ray Steadmon owns Coloma Lanes in Coloma in southwestern Michigan. He’s encouraging bowlers who sign up for his Stars …

The Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) says none of the organisers of the pro and anti-Zuma marches were granted permission to hold protests outside Luthuli House on Monday. “Nobody came to us to apply. We have no knowledge of the marches‚” said JMPD spokesperson Edna Mamonyane. She said the …

About 60 protesters gathered in front of Booth’s Harper Center last Friday to protestprofessor Luigi Zingales’s invitation of Stephen Bannon. A dozen counter-protesterswere also present at the rally, which began at 3 p.m.. Several outside organizations joined UChicago student RSOs at the protest, including Refuse Fascism …

This weekend’s Davis Cup tennis “tie-in” match between Israel and South Africa, at the Irene Country Club in Centurion on February 2 and 3, has been tense and heated – both on and off the court. Anti-apartheid movements held protests outside the event in anger over what they say is Israeli racism and apartheid, similar to …

Bollywood actor Vidya Balan has reacted to the protests against Deepika Padukone-Ranveer Singh-starrer Padmaavat and said all films deserve a release. “I feel every kind of film should be allowed to be released in the way it’s been made and then if you don’t want to go and watch it, don’t watch it. But at least watch it to …

Lome - Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Togo’s capital Lome on Saturday, against President Faure Gnassingbe and his government. The protestcame the day after mediators from Ghana and Guinea said that Togo will enter talks on controversial constitutional reform February 15, in a move aimed at ending a …

Bell’s more limited policy immediately generated protests from people who owned Bell-locked phones but had their request for free unlocking turned down by Bell because they had never been a customer. Bell says CRTC promise of free phone unlocking doesn’t apply to everyone. “It was not in the spirit of what the CRTC …

Joanna Billingham protests against cuts in the NHS. Ellie says she is only in the middle of her first work placement and that is all about personal care, so she cannot comment on the issues raised first hand. But has seen patients in corridors and is convinced that the Government will privatise large swathes of the NHS by …