US President-elect Joe Biden chooses Lloyd Austin, who led US troops into Baghdad in 2003 and rose to head the US Central Command, as the first African-American Pentagon chief, US media reported Monday.

Protesters in the state of Washington have set American flags on fire following a vigil for an African-American man who was shot and killed by police.

US police kill a black man in the capital Washington DC in the latest of a sting of police killings of black men and women that have sparked nationwide anger.

A study shows African-American children in the US are at greater risk of dying from an operation than white kids.

The British government officially admits that the coronavirus pandemic has had a far greater impact on the country's ethnic minorities.

Indianapolis police shot and killed a black man in an incident apparently captured on Facebook Live, leading to calls by civil rights leaders for a probe.