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Jailed. Beaten. Yet 1960s activist Fannie Lou Hamer stood up to white supremacy – comic As people across the US protest, many are looking back at civil rights activists like Hamer, who resisted brutal violence and imprisonment for years, for inspiration As hundreds of thousands of people continue to protest against police brutality against black […] More
Amid the visceral national outcry for racial justice in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, a lone US senator is standing in the way of a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime. Rand Paul, a Republican with a reputation as a one-man awkward squad in the US Senate, has […] More
Donald Trump will hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, next Friday – his first since since states began shutting down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 110,000 lives in the US. The 19 June rally will likely rattle some public health experts, as coronavirus infections rise in about a dozen states. […] More
Philonise Floyd makes impassioned plea to ensure brother’s death ‘isn’t in vain’ and urges US lawmakers to ‘do the right thing’ George Floyd killing – latest US updates See all our George Floyd coverage Play Video 4:51 ‘Stop the pain’: Philonise Floyd testifies at House hearing on police brutality – video Hours after George Floyd […] More
‘I was leaving a shop and security stopped me. I was four’: young protesters on why they are marching against racism Natasha, 21, creative writing and drama student and Aima, 18, student and co-organiser of LDNBLM Composite: Anselm Ebulue/Anselm Ebulue / The Guardian The UK’s Black Lives Matter protests have been spearheaded by a new […] More
George Floyd The legislation would ban chokeholds by police, set up a national database for tracking police misconduct and would bar types of ‘no-knock’ warrants George Floyd killing – latest US updates Play Video 1:26 George Floyd tribute: Democrats take a knee for almost 9 minutes – video Democrats in Congress have unveiled a sweeping […] More
Play Video 1:26 Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, led House and Senate Democrats in a moment of silence at the Capitol’s Emancipation Hall after reading the names of George Floyd and others killed in police custody. They kneeled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds – the length of time prosecutors say Floyd was […] More
Racism in America is not the exception – it’s the norm Nesrine Malik Those clutching their pearls at police brutality think the US’s inherent virtue will prevail. But it was never there to begin with Play Video 5:20 Inside the George Floyd protests in New York: ‘we are not the problem’ – video When a black […] More
