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...When George Floyd died, it was awash in Black Lives Matters flags. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, the BLM posters were joined by the Ukrainian flag....
...It seems to work: the sale, which included paintings by Rashid Johnson, Reggie Burrows Hodges and Jennifer Guidi, brings in $2.5mn....
...Black professionals, who have been the focus of many corporate DEI efforts since Floyd’s murder, are responding “with an eye roll”, Braswell said....
...Morrison Foerster was one of two firms sued last month in a new campaign by conservative activist Edward Blum following his landmark Supreme Court victory over US colleges’ affirmative action programmes...
...Edward Floyd, partner in the family team at Farrer & Co in London, says: “Couples are entering into postnuptial agreements as a ‘belt-and-braces’ additional layer of protection” on top of a pre-nup....
...James launched the Fifteen Per Cent Pledge in 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd....
...Edward Blum, a conservative campaigner who in June won a decades-long battle to end racially conscious admissions at US colleges, has already sued global firms Perkins Coie and Morrison Foerster, arguing...
...The store will be a place where “people really get to experience the Fender brand”, Edward Cole, the company’s president for Asia-Pacific, told Nikkei Asia....
...Blackstone seeks Pink Floyd catalogue The US private equity group is vying to buy Pink Floyd’s back catalogue, a big bet on music rights that could value the psychedelic rock band’s songs at almost half...
...It was an idiosyncratic little boît that once belonged to Keith Floyd....
...Edward Luce, who interviewed Burns at the FTWeekend Festival, writes on the foreign policy challenges for the US for the Weekend magazine....
...“Bond markets are always highly correlated, but we’ve definitely seen the tail wagging the dog this week,” said Dickie Hodges, head of unconstrained fixed income at Nomura Asset Management....
...The Southbank Centre’s SoundState, a five-day festival of new music, has just kicked off with a high-energy concert featuring the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner....
...Pianist Edward Simon’s “8’46”” marked the death of George Floyd; Potter composed “Can You See” the day after the Capitol Hill riot....
...As gloomy economic talk threatens to revive memories of the 1970s, rock group Pink Floyd are not complaining....
...Remembering George Floyd Today marks the two-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd....
...“Gosh, they’re high enough now to buy,” said Edward Al-Hussainy, senior interest rates strategist at Columbia Threadneedle. “That’s what we’re doing.”...
...The kind of place Rick Stein or Keith Floyd would have driven past and dreamt of turning into a restaurant....
...In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, she’d confided, “sales went through the roof with people trying to support black-owned brands… We saw more white customers.”...
....” — Paul Hodges, Lisbon, Portugal Catch up on previous Swamp Notes on FT.com....
...American in the World We’ve Made by Ben Rhodes, Bloomsbury £20, 384 pages Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux $27/Johnathan Cape £14.99, 240 pages Edward...
...Bacon in Moscow by James Birch with Michael Hodges, Cheerio, £17.99, 208 pages Guy Chazan is the FT’s Berlin bureau chief Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe...
...In Bristol, the statue of slave trader Edward Colston — which was felled in 2020 — has not been put back up....
...Edward Luce responds Brooke, here is one plausible version of how events will unfold. Democrats will lose control of Capitol Hill in November....
...This article has been amended since first publication to clarify the circumstances surrounding the shooting of the 13-year-old boy edward.luce@ft.com...
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