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George Floyd’s family lobbies Biden for U.S. police reform

George Floyd’s family lobbies Biden for U.S. police reform

JEFF MASON and NICK PFOSI A year after his killing unleashed a national reckoning over racial injustice, George Floyd's relatives met with President Joe Biden at the White House and with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to urge passage of police reform legislation in their loved one's name. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died in handcuffs with a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes, became the face of a national movement challenging police brutality and bias in the U.S. criminal justice system. His dying words, "I can't breathe," have echoed as a slogan in…
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How can we ensure financial investments flow to Black and minority communities?

How can we ensure financial investments flow to Black and minority communities?

YVONNE FIELD ON the 25th May 2020 a video was posted of George Floyd online, that went viral across the world. This video, followed by many, many more: gave us nowhere else left to look, but at the truth. It exposed something latent in the entire fabric of the West. The topic of race has long been denied, avoided, rebuked, refuted, dismissed, eliminated, repressed, invalidated and silenced. This truth, triggered a global re-traumatisation of Black people everywhere. In May 2020, the deepest parts of Black people’s personal trauma went viral. As trauma became in the hands and devices of everyone,…
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