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Backlash over Kanye West's Slavery Remarks
Kanye West has suggested that African-American slavery may have been 'a choice'.
There's been a fierce backlash against the US rapper, Kanye West after he claimed the enslavement of African Americans over centuries may have been a "choice".
Also today; US media reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller warned he could order Donald Trump to testify as part of a probe into alleged Russian election meddling. And tens of thousands of supporters of Armenia's protest leader, Nikol Pashinyan have brought cities there to a standstill.
(Photo: Kanye West. Credit: Eduardo Munoz/File Photo/Reuters)
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