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Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black': 

A Louisiana cemetery has apologised after refusing to bury a local black police officer because of a decades-old provision allowing only white people. The Oaklin Springs Cemetery board met on Thursday to change its sales contract after an outcry over the "white human beings" rule. Officer Darrell Semien's widow called it a "slap in the face" to be denied a plot "because he's black".

The incident comes over 50 years since the passage of the US Civil Rights Act. The landmark legislation, passed in 1964, banned discrimination and ended so-called Jim Crow laws which legally enshrined racist policies in mostly southern states such as Louisiana.

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