- 2020 George Floyd / Black Lives Matter Protests – Showing to date – 3429 cities or towns with protests (throughout the world – with the majority in the US and Europe) since May 25 2020. Updated June 13. 2020.
- The New York Times – How Black Lives Matter reached every corner of America – “On any given day, they spill out onto the streets, driven by fury. They march. They kneel. They sing. They cry. They pray. They light candles. They chant and shout, urgent voices, muffled behind masks. They block freeways and bridges and fill public squares. They press their bodies into hot asphalt, silently breathing for eight minutes and 46 seconds. They do all this beneath the watchful gaze of uniformed police officers standing sentry…race, the warm spring air was already charged. A killer virus had ripped through black communities. Bullets, too. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. And then the death of a black man after an encounter with a white police officer, who pressed his left knee on the neck of the man the world now knows as George Floyd. His death during the last light of Memorial Day has unleashed one of the most explosive trials of American racism in modern times…”
- See also Kadir Nelson’s “Say Their Names” – A closeup examination of the artist’s latest cover, in which the murder of George Floyd embodies the history of violence inflicted upon black people in America. By The New Yorker – “An annotated version zeroes in on these lives, including Ahmaud Arbery, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Rodney King, Martin Luther King Jr., Trayvon Martin, David McAtee, Rosa Parks, Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor, Emmett Till, and the unnamed millions of black people enslaved in America.”
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