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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....
...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....
...Pianist Edward Simon’s “8’46”” marked the death of George Floyd; Potter composed “Can You See” the day after the Capitol Hill riot....
...Remembering George Floyd Today marks the two-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd....
...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.”...
...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...
...In Bristol, the statue of slave trader Edward Colston — which was felled in 2020 — has not been put back up....
...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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...Voters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, rejected a proposal to disband the city’s police department, 18 months after George Floyd was killed there....
...Even without last week’s guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin, the police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd 11 months ago, the change of president was dramatic....
...This followed the murder of George Floyd in the US by a policeman two weeks earlier....
...Most of last year’s leap took place after George Floyd’s murder in late May....
...The summit this week, called by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, follows the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol in June....
...I can feel the oppression,’” says Rosemary Edwards. “The US was not too kind to him.”...
...Last June, Black Lives Matter protesters tore down from the podium a statue of Edward Colston, a 17th century slave trader, in an incident that divides policing experts....
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