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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara raises his fist in solidarity

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.

  • Farrah Tomazin

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Demonstrators carry a banner during an ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Silent March For Justice in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in March 2021. Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nearly 9 minutes.

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.

  • Holly Bailey
People gather at a memorial mural outside the store where George Floyd died.

‘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.

  • Maxine Beneba Clarke
Damik Bryant, brother of Daunte Wright, centre, and friends release balloons after the three former Minneapolis police officers were found guilty of depriving George Floyd of his right to medical care.

‘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.

  • Jonathan Allen
Derek Chauvin, pictured at his sentencing hearing in June.

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.

  • Amy Forliti
The Candyman sequel breathes new life into the cult hit about an old myth.

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.

  • Karl Quinn
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While Fox news has reported the rise of critical race theory over 1000 times this year, it is not being directly taught in most schools in the US.

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.

  • Matthew Knott
Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.

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.

  • Nicholas Pfosi and Jonathan Allen
US teenager Darnella Frazier, who had just won a Pulitzer for taking the video of George Floyd’s death.

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”.

  • Amy Forliti
Spain’s skin-tone stamps - with the lightest ones being the most valuable.

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.

  • Rick Noack

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