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...James launched the Fifteen Per Cent Pledge in 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd....
...“This history isn’t taught generally, not even now,” says Stacey Toussaint, Haitian-American founder of Inside Out tours, which does a slavery and Underground Railroad tour of New York City....
...We were listening to Pink Floyd, which was illegal, we were talking about Solzhenitsyn [the author and Soviet dissident].”...
...Biden called Floyd’s family after the verdict. “At least, God, now there is some justice,” he told them....
...Meanwhile, many of those who campaigned last year for greater racial equality in the wake of George Floyd’s murder have found common cause with Palestinians....
Leniency shown toward white rioters prompts renewed calls to overhaul criminal justice system
...Stacey Abrams, the former state legislator who is expected to run for governor again in 2022, said the business community could not remain silent “when anyone in power is trying to strip away the right to...
...seems unlikely that a white 78-year-old man should prove to be the great hope of black and ethnic minority Americans demanding racial justice after a turbulent year which saw the police killing of George Floyd...
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...Last month, the US politician and former Georgia House of Representatives member Stacey Abrams published her first thriller, While Justice Sleeps....
...The protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody have been remarkable, not just for the numbers of people attending but also for the fact that they have done so even in the middle of the...
...Nine months later and Stacey Abrams is earning similar plaudits for her significant efforts in the battle to defeat Donald Trump....
...His victory will be celebrated by black voters beyond Georgia and comes after a year that was marked by a renewed push for racial justice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota last May....
...Video footage taken by a witness showed Floyd begging for his life while a white police officer knelt on his neck for eight minutes....
Crowds, chanting and mass arrests are risk factors that could fuel spread of Covid-19
...Reporting by Kiran Stacey, Aime Williams, Lauren Fedor, Derek Brower, Courtney Weaver, Myles McCormick and Demetri Sevastopulo...
...Now of course, there are other issues which have risen up the political agenda here in the US in the last few weeks, not least race relations in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white...
...Mr Dean’s organisation is also working with the groups that helped marshal the recent civil-rights demonstrations after the killing of George Floyd....
...The CDC also recommended that organisers of large public events enforce strict safety standards, in advice that applies to the protests that have swept the country following the death of George Floyd, and...
...The agency warned the public against attending large gatherings such as the protests that have swept the US following George Floyd’s death, or the political rallies that Mr Trump’s campaign has planned,...
...Describing the protesters as “thugs” who were dishonouring the memory of George Floyd, the African-American whose death in police custody sparked outrage, Mr Trump said in a tweet on Friday morning: “Any...
...Mr Trump has also come under intense criticism for his response to the protests in the wake of Floyd’s death....
...Stacey Davis Gates, Chicago Teachers Union vice-president, said that one of the issues with SROs was the mismatch between students’ needs and police capabilities....
...Additional reporting by Kiran Stacey in Washington Follow Demetri Sevastopulo and James Fontanella-Khan on Twitter...
...The former vice-president was expected to attend Floyd's funeral next week, the Floyd family's lawyer said on Tuesday....
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