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...“He always wanted whatever a person was due, to get it, especially money-wise and especially for young black entertainers,” said singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson....
...That’s a line that rings out for an audience watching in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter movement....
...“The fight for accountability and justice in America is far from over,” said Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change....
...Last year it became the central focus of a global campaign against racism and inequality following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis....
...When Leigh-Anne posted a heartfelt and widely commended video in response to the Floyd case, intemperate responses from the likes of Tommy Robinson were only to be expected....
...Ultimately, employment opportunity is the top issue for black Americans, according to Rashad Robinson, president of the activist organisation Color of Change....
...He has answered a wave of revulsion at the death of George Floyd by wordlessly flourishing a Bible. This is proof enough to one version of piety that he is on the side of the angels....
...Mr Robinson applauds the city council of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed by a white police officer, for announcing plans to dismantle its police force, after concluding that reforming it had failed...
...One is Willie Adams, a father of four in his thirties, who was working at Washington’s Georgetown University Hospital until last year, but is now unemployed and has recently been attending Robinson’s courses...
...Born one of eight children to a boilermaker’s assistant and tavern owner in Mobile, Alabama, Aaron was inspired to take up baseball after listening to a speech by Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 became the...
...“Capitalism does not work if we don’t have a functioning democracy,” echoed Craig Robinson, a former WeWork executive working with Leadership Now....
...This article has been amended to reflect that City is a part of the University of London; to update the number of black students on Harvard’s MBA course, and to clarify Sionade Robinson’s role in the Cass...
...But his remarks on Floyd’s death were not without precedent....
...“In this climate of America right now, we are doing something righteous to be on the right side of history,” said DeWaun Robinson, who leads the Flint chapter of Black Lives Matter....
...The letter was written in the midst of a cultural and political reckoning with systematic racism in the United States in the wake of the George Floyd death in Minneapolis....
...Black venture capitalists have been sharing stories like Mr Robinson’s since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis three weeks ago, igniting a fresh wave of criticism about Silicon Valley’s lack of...
...There is a long history of black US athletes, including boxer Muhammad Ali and baseball player Jackie Robinson, using their influence to take stands against racial inequality....
...“It’s like Reverend Jesse Jackson always said, baseball became a better sport after Jackie Robinson started to play.”...
...So check out the piece by the FT’s wine supremo Jancis Robinson about the recent explosion in sustainable winemaking....
...She set up Instagram account @decolonisethegarden in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests that sprang from the death of George Floyd in the US in May....
...As protests and rioting over the death in police custody of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, spread through several American cities, Mr Zuckerberg was forced to defend Facebook’s position as — in his...
...That’s the problem black founders and venture capitalists — including Elliott Robinson, pictured below, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners — are trying to solve following the killing of George Floyd...
...For British bands such as Pink Floyd in their early years, music was a journey into the unknown (“Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun”, repetitive and mystical; “Astronomy Domine”, beeps and droning...
...“We see this as the future in this space,” says Aaron Robinson, senior sustainability manager at United Airlines....
...One reader put forward Willie Edwards’ cult favourite, “Dollar In”, which poses the question, “A dollar in, a dollar out, how does interest come about?”...
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