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The intersection was held as an occupation protest by people who had erected barricades to block vehicular traffic and transformed the space with amenities, social services, and public art of Floyd and that of other racial justice themes. [51] [52] [53] The street intersection reopened to vehicular traffic on June 20, 2021.
Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest is the latest in a long line of athletes protesting social injustice. Looking back at the 10 biggest social justice protests by athletes over the last 20 ...
New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice ...
A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] including police brutality and other forms of violence. [10]
OPINION: A modest proposal to solve America's most pressing problems by weaponizing one of our most powerful tools: white supremacy The post Why America needs more injustice: An appeal to the ...
A study by the Brandeis University Institute on Assets and Social Policy which followed the same sets of families for 25 years found that there are vast differences in wealth across racial groups in the United States. The wealth gap between Caucasian and African-American families studied nearly tripled, from $85,000 in 1984 to $236,500 in 2009.
The scenario, which we've seen go wrong countless times in the past and, most recently, with the shooting of Daunte Wright, had viewers taking to social media both in tears and enraged.
George Floyd protests Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–2023) and the Black Lives Matter movement Clockwise from top: Protesters in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered and the unrest began Police and National Guard at a protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bystanders and firefighters at a torched street in Minneapolis Protest near the Multnomah County Justice Center in ...