George Floyd
His killing sparked a global uprising, but has anything changed after George Floyd’s death?
Floyd’s killing in May 2020 and the shocking video that captured it sparked one of the biggest civil rights uprisings in generations but for many the fight for change continues.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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Chauvin admits ‘he knew’ kneeling on George Floyd’s neck ‘was wrong’
The former police officer had already been convicted of murdering George Floyd. Now he has acknowledged he heard bystanders urging him to check Floyd’s pulse but did nothing.
- by Holly Bailey
‘An absolute triumph’: This vital George Floyd biography is not to be missed
His Name is George Floyd is a story about the fallacy of the American Dream and how a white supremacist ideology was a snarling hound at Floyd’s heels.
- by Maxine Beneba Clarke
‘No free passes’: Ex-police officers guilty of violating George Floyd’s rights
Three former Minneapolis police officers have been found guilty of depriving George Floyd of his rights by failing to give aid to the handcuffed Black man pinned beneath a colleague’s knee.
- by Jonathan Allen
Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to violating George Floyd’s rights
The federal charges included two counts alleging that Chauvin deprived Floyd of his rights by kneeling on his neck as he was handcuffed and not resisting, and then failing to provide medical care.
- by Amy Forliti
Forget the haunted house, in Jordan Peele’s Candyman the whole ’hood is cursed
This belated sequel to the 1992 cult classic Candyman has a much bigger target in mind.
- by Karl Quinn
The battle over race upending America’s classrooms
Nobody was talking about critical race theory two years ago, but in the wake of the George Floyd protests, it has become the latest moral panic in schools.
- by Matthew Knott
Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 years in jail for George Floyd’s murder
A Minnesota judge has sentenced former police officer Derek Chauvin to 22½ years in prison for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest last year.
- by Nicholas Pfosi and Jonathan Allen
Teen who filmed Floyd’s arrest, death wins Pulitzer honour
Darnella Frazier ushered her niece into a store then went back out to the footpath to begin recording because “it wasn’t right. He was suffering. He was in pain”.
- by Amy Forliti
Spain introduces ‘accidentally racist’ skin-tone stamps in anti-racism effort
Letters will require more black stamps than white ones, which will become “a reflection of the inequality created by racism”, Spain’s postal authority announced, a highly criticised statement.
- by Rick Noack
Opinion
Racism
Australia silent one year on from George Floyd’s death
In the weeks after George Floyd’s death, we discussed the issue of racism with empathy. And then we stopped.
- by Div Pillay
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/george-perry-floyd-1ngy