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Protesters march on the Brooklyn Bridge in 2020.

Is this the end of the line for diversity policies?

One of the most important management trends of the past decade may no longer be equal to the occasion.

  • Aaron Patrick

June 2021

Derek Chauvin at the sentencing hearing.

Derek Chauvin gets 22 1/2 years in prison for George Floyd’s murder

Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was immediately led back to prison after being sentenced. His request for a new trial was denied.

  • Amy Forliti and Steve Karnowski

April 2021

 Former police officer Derek Chauvin was this week found guilty on all three charges he faced.

After Floyd verdict, US Congress plunges back into policing laws

Legislation that was once stalled on Capitol Hill is now closer than ever to consensus, legislators of both parties said a day after a Minneapolis jury found former officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter.

  • Lisa Mascaro
Joe Biden speaks after the verdict: “This is a time for this country to come together, to unite as Americans. There can never be any safe harbour for hate in America.”

Biden expresses relief at Chauvin verdict in prime-time address

The US President said the outcome of the trial had the potential to be a ‘moment of significant change’ and called on Congress to pass federal policing reform in George Floyd’s memory.

  • Lauren Fedor and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
George Floyd’s death sparked protests around the world.

Chauvin conviction of Floyd murder heralds new era

President Joe Biden praised a guilty verdict in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, but called it a “too rare” step to deliver “basic accountability” for black Americans killed during interactions with police.

  • Adam Taylor and Erik Larson
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March 2021

George Floyd's death sparked first rage, then determination for change.

George Floyd’s family to receive record $35m settlement

The settlement is the highest ever paid by the city of Minneapolis, eclipsing the amount paid to the family of Justine Damond, who killed by a police officer in 2017.

  • Holly Bailey and Toluse Olorunnipa

November 2020

Trump supporters at a post-election protests in Las Vegas.

The three lessons for Australia in the US election

To avoid the excessive partisanship of deeply divided America, we must guard against turning those who built this country into pariahs.

  • Alexander Downer
Supporters outside a polling location for the 2020 Presidential election in Houston, Texas, U.S

One thing is clear: America remains bitterly divided

The more disturbing issue is not who wins the presidency, but how they will they govern when the US is more polarised than at any time since the Civil War.

  • Tom Switzer

August 2020

Kamala Harris could be key to voter turnout.

Harris shows Democrats are chasing a broader mandate

Picking the former Californian attorney-general potentially shifts the US election from a choice between two old white men to a choice over the future of the country.

  • Gordon Flake

July 2020

Federal agents use crowd control munitions to disperse Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon. President Trump has threatened to send Federal agents to other US cities.

Trump threatens to send Federal forces to more cities

Governors and other officials reacted angrily to the President's move, calling it an election-year ploy.

  • Peter Baker, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Monica Davey
The Washington Redskins' logo has long been criticized as racist.

Redskins NFL team to rebrand after sponsor revolt

The name and logo of one of the US football code's oldest and most successful teams has been offensive to Native Americans for decades and is being changed following the death of George Floyd.

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  • Frank Pingue

June 2020

Former President Barack Obama has been reluctantly drawn back into the political fray.

How Trump is forcing Obama's hand

The 44th president's plans for a quiet retirement have been hijacked by the guy whose head he 'rents space in'.

  • Glenn Thrush and Elaina Plott
Black Lives Matter protest.

Black Lives Matter hijacked by anti-Semitism

Extreme anti-racists see Israel as the world's single biggest problem.

  • Zoe Strimpel
Nestle has announced it will change the names of its Red Skins and Chicos lollies.

Nestlé to rename Australian lollies amid race debate

The move to rebrand Red Skins and Chicos is part of the corporate world's reckoning with the treatment of African Americans after the death of George Floyd.

  • Swati Pandey
People stand around a fallen Christopher Columbus statue in St Paul, Minnesota.

From Columbus to Confederates, statue fury boils over

The statues of those regarded by many as heroes are bearing the brunt of a wave of anger from protesters keen to rewrite a nation's history.

  • Sarah Mervosh, Simon Romero and Lucy Tompkins
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Workers clean graffiti from a statue of Belgium's King Leopold II in Brussels, that was targeted by protesters during a Black Lives Matter demonstration.

History is better served by putting the Men in Stone in museums

Changing attitudes towards racial injustice will affect who we consider tolerable and who intolerable to memorialise.

  • Simon Schama
Former prime minister and former member for Warringah, Tony Abbott.

Tony Abbott condemns action to remove Rhodes statues

The former PM and Rhodes Scholar said modern life was built on the work of people like Cecil Rhodes, the British imperialist.

  • Aaron Patrick
Competitive power lifter and body builder Jessica Kennedy at Crossfit Moorabbin in Melbourne this month.

CrossFit gyms rebrand after CEO's insensitive tweet about George Floyd

Within 48 hours of Greg Glassman's comment, several gyms disassociated themselves from the CrossFit brand and Reebok ended its corporate sponsorship.

  • Des Bieler and Jena McGregor
Stephanie Rapkin, right, was arrested on Saturday after a video, left, showed her spitting at a protester.

Calls for lawyer to be disbarred after she spat on black protester

A white Wisconsin lawyer was arrested after she was caught on video spitting at a 17-year-old black protester, who has subsequently spoken out about the ordeal.

  • Meagan Flynn
The US has suffered division as it tries to live up to ideals.

The United States is bigger than an erratic president

Donald Trump is erratic at home and unconstructive abroad. Allies such as Australia must help keep American power engaged.

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