anti-racism
The fight for justice is far from over, but the fact that so much has changed in such a short time highlights how historic this moment really is.
How can the Black community trust the government to bring about change when Dominic Raab likens taking a knee to Game of Thrones?, writes Nadine Batchelor-Hunt.
Current and former staff want the museum to “commit publicly to being actively anti-racist and to acknowledge and work to dismantle the racist structures they uphold”.
The protests in Britain over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has set in motion a debate statues, with many in our public spaces commemorating those who were directly linked with the slave trade. Claudine Van Hensbergen is an expert on sculptures in public spaces and explains how we interact with statues, what they mean to a society and how we deal with their legacy is only part of Britain’s fight against racism.
Writer, performer and educator Keith Jarrett has created an original poetic response to the UK’s own history of anti-Black racism. Jarrett, the UK poetry slam champion and Rio International Poetry Slam Winner, was commissioned by HuffPost UK in response to the anti-racism protests in Britain over George Floyd’s death, a Black man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
The two-minute PSA features stars like Aaron Paul, Kesha and Kristen Bell "taking responsibility" for their own conscious and unconscious racism as actorly as possible.
From cities defunding police departments to monuments to racists coming down, significant changes have already emerged from anti-racism protests.
In their own words anti-racism demonstrators explain why they are joining Black Lives Matter protests in the UK. They are among thousands who have taken to the streets for a second week in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
Huge crowds have assembled in cities across the country to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
Thousands of anti-racism protestors gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square following the death of Black man George Floyd, who was killed by police. Similar scenes have been seen in Canada, Germany and New Zealand. The protests follow the death of George Floyd while in police custody, sparking a wave of anger in more than 75 cities across America.