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A Kentucky candidate has raised $1m for his Senate campaign in the wake of protests over racism and police reform Charles Booker, Kentucky state representative, files to run for the state Senate seat held by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. Photograph: Bruce Schreiner/AP African American candidates and political groups focused on racial justice have experienced […] More
The killing of George Floyd has been a turning point for for everyone but the president – who has seldom been so isolated from his own party and the public Donald Trump attends a roundtable discussion at Gateway Church in Dallas. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP Longtime observers of Donald Trump have often compared him to an […] More
US elections 2020 US president pushes back gathering by a day after requests from ‘many of my African American friends’ to respect significance of the day Donald Trump has postponed his Oklahoma election rally amid anger at his decision to hold it on the Juneteenth holiday. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump has postponed his […] More
Race Rally to be held on anniversary of end of slavery, in city where white mobs killed up to 300 black people People protest in Tulsa on 31 May to honour the 99th anniversary of the race massacre and George Floyd, who was killed in police custody. Photograph: Ian Maule/AP Donald Trump is facing a […] More
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
