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Black Lives Matter movement

March 2024

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon’s tomb - the island’s biggest tourist attraction. However, while overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world.

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

  • Marvin Rees stands in front of the toppled statue of Edward Colston, which is lying horizontal in a glass case.

    Edward Colston statue placed in quiet corner of Bristol museum

February 2024

  • A young black protester with a big 'afro' hairstyle and a black bandana over her face holds a cardboard sign to the camera reading "I refuse to be silent"

    Opinion
    Gaza’s social media activists are a potent force for change in the fight against racism

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • Composite of three animation still showing confrontation and rescue attempts on a street at night.

    A gunman killed and injured protesters at a BLM march. Why did police blame the victims?

January 2024

  • Black Unity Bike Ride, London, 5 August 2023.

    The Audio Long Read
    Four bike rides, four years in the life of Black Britain: ‘On the road, we found ourselves again’ – podcast

    In a time of death and isolation, a new tradition was born. As the UK struggled with Covid and a renewed fight for racial justice, I turned to two wheels to get by. By Aniefiok Ekpoudom

November 2023

  • In image taken from video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin county courthouse, 25 June 2021, in Minneapolis.

    Supreme court rejects Chauvin’s appeal of George Floyd murder conviction

    Decision affirms Minneapolis ex-police officer’s conviction for second-degree murder and sentence of over 20 years in prison

September 2023

  • Descendants of the Windrush generation enjoy a Caribbean tea dance at Tilbury port as they celebrate the 75th anniversary of the arrival HMT Empire Windrush on 22 June 2023.

    Black History Month to celebrate women and UK’s Windrush generation

  • Chuck D in London in 2017.

    ‘It’s a sickness’: Chuck D on his new graphic novel and the ‘madness’ of US gun culture

August 2023

  • Baton round and gun

    Met only authorised baton rounds for black-led events, FOI reveals

    Metropolitan police approved their use at Notting Hill carnival and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020

July 2023

  • Dawit Kelete in court in Seattle. He is set to be sentenced in September.

    US man who killed woman by driving car through BLM protest pleads guilty

    Dawit Kelete, 30, pleads guilty to multiple charges after hitting two protesters, one fatally, during 2020 protest in Seattle

June 2023

  • A few rows of people stand behind Moments Contained, the almost4 meter-high bronze statue of a young black woman by British artist Thomas J Price, outside Rotterdam Centraal station

    ‘It’s every woman, it’s us’: Rotterdam falls for British statue of ordinary black woman

    With Moments Contained, sculptor Thomas J Price challenges convention and makes us question who gets to be seen
  • Rufus Norris in August 2020.

    Rufus Norris to step down as National Theatre leader in spring 2025

    Director says past eight years ‘most challenging time in history’ for sector, but audience figures finally back at pre-pandemic levels
  • Neo (left), wearing a yellow top and glasses, and Becky, wearing a blue top and a nose ring.

    How we met
    How we met: ‘I saw a beautiful Black woman – and we shared an instant connection’

    Neo, 46, and Becky, 54, met at a festival in 2017. Their friendship grew over lockdown, when they bonded over shared childhood experiences and the Black Lives Matter movement

May 2023

  • ‘I have never seen a wave of settlements for police brutality like this in American history,’ said Justin Hansford, a professor at Howard University School of Law.

    US cities to pay record $80m to people injured in 2020 racial justice protests

    Exclusive: At least 19 cities will pay settlements to protesters who sustained injuries as a result of law enforcement action
  • A Black Lives Matter protest in Brooklyn, New York in June 2020.

    FBI broke own rules in January 6 and BLM intelligence search, court finds

    Critics decry ‘egregious’ abuse after Fisa court shows repeated violations related to vast foreign intelligence database
  • Guardian Australia’s Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam at her home in Sydney

    Ten years of Guardian Australia
    The staggering omission that led to Deaths Inside, the tally tracking Indigenous deaths in custody

    The question was, ‘How many people have died since the 1991 royal commission?’ Nobody knew – so a Guardian Australia team spent eight months trawling through inquests and media reports, striving to highlight human stories behind shocking statistics

April 2023

  • Trinity College Dublin's Berkeley Library

    Trinity College Dublin to ‘dename’ George Berkeley library over slavery links

  • Phil Jackson sits behind Denzel Washington at a Lakers game in 2015

    From dress codes to equality, Phil Jackson is exactly who we thought he was

    Etan Thomas
  • NSW police patrol the Domain on the day of a Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney in July 2020.

    Sydney BLM and trans rights protesters fail to overturn Covid fines using freedom of speech argument

  • Nesrine Malik

    Is a British pub racist for displaying golliwogs? Think how that question makes people of colour like me feel

    Nesrine Malik
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