Thinking of the cinema this week. Declan Burke reviews  Fences, Hidden Figures and The Great Wall.

A shift in focus can lead to national consensus that might extend the America described in Obama’s speech into a place its citizens can be proud to call home, writes Peniel Joseph

Peniel E Joseph sets last week’s massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in the context of a climate of denial in America over national issues of racial inequality

A US swimming pool was at the centre of a 1960s-style race row today after its members allegedly turned away black and Hispanic youngsters and pulled their own children out of the water.