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...The spirit of George Floyd is never far from Bridgette Stewart, an anti-violence activist from a group, Agape Movement, that tends George Floyd Square in Minneapolis....
...Elton John is still a favourite, and so is Pink Floyd. In my fridge you’ll always find Mars bars. I’ve recently rediscovered a photograph of my father....
...Since the murder of George Floyd two and a half years ago, we’ve seen high-profile efforts by organisations to improve diversity, equity and inclusion....
...Lawyer Chris Stewart, who also represents the family, said the settlement would set a new precedent for how the civil justice system values black lives, and have an effect on policing practices....
...It provided the soundtrack to demonstrations in cities across the US after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis in May 2020....
...Floyd, a 46-year-old black man....
...(FT) The day ahead Derek Chauvin trial The trial of the former Minneapolis policeman accused of killing George Floyd begins with the opening arguments today....
...In a string of tweets, Slack chief executive Stewart Butterfield called for reforms to police training, lamenting cases of “outrageous initiation or escalation of violence” by some officers while highlighting...
...Chris Stewart, a lawyer for the family, urged people not to attribute blame to Brooks for resisting arrest, saying black men were nervous about being arrested, particularly after watching how Floyd was killed...
...The funeral of George Floyd took place on June 9. The protests continued....
...Denny promptly bumps into the folk singer John Martyn, while Elf’s set is later clapped “with delight” by another stalwart of the singer-songwriter scene, Al Stewart....
...It is steeped in sweet small-town nostalgia that seems to filter down through the coconut palms like aromatic dust, writes Stanley Stewart....
...The “lightbulb moment”, says Nwandu, was when she saw Waiting for Godot on Broadway, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart as an ageing Vladimir and Estragon....
...Other clients have included members of Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton. Often Press would recruit staff to work in the houses, too....
...Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was the kind of concept album that punks would later lampoon as the grandiose doodlings of an inaccessible sect....
...“Pink Floyd. Couldn’t bear them. You know, clean, rational, English grammar school boys worrying about issues like education. I thought this isn’t what I want from music....
...Higonnet’s entertaining subjects range from Isabella Stewart Gardner to the de Menils and Ronald Lauder....
...Syd Barrett was washed up by 25, having launched Pink Floyd as London’s leading psychedelic adventurers. Then came mental breakdown....
...Alysoun Stewart, director of growth and strategic services at accountancy GrantThornton November 26: Readers’ Questions Q....
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