George Floyd

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As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads around the world, UK Black Pride co-founder Phyll Opoku-Gyimah talks about how best you can be an ally to Black people. Also known as Lady Phyll the activist speaks from personal experience about what it means to be proactively anti-racist. After George Floyd, a Black man, was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis conversations around systemic racism and allyship have increased both in the UK and abroad.
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.
Travelling pianist Davide Martello drove 12 hours to perform for mourners at the memorial for George Floyd in Minneapolis this week. The musician, also known as Klavierkunst, hoped his music would help spread a message of unity and give solace.
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.
Reverend Jide Macaulay talks about the right to protest but the importance of not harming one another as people around the world take to the streets. Black Lives Matter demonstrations have erupted globally in the wake of George Floyd’s death, a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck. Macaulay, who is a theologian, HIV+ Activist and founded House Of Rainbow, stressed that lasting change also needs politicians to pay attention.
A FedEx driver was fired for joining the group of white counterprotesters who reenacted the police killing at a Black Lives Matter march.