I feel privileged to be in the United States during the first-ever global movement against racism. Eighteen countries around the world and ...
I feel privileged to be in the United States during the first-ever global movement against racism. Eighteen countries around the world and all 50 states of the US have held large-scale protests for police accountability. People of every hue are showing up with masks on the streets of America demanding justice amid two pandemics – Covid-19 and racial injustice.
On June 5, along with thousands of others, I took a knee on the steps of New York’s Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, to demand racial justice and an end to police brutality. We called for justice for Breonna Taylor at a vigil on a day that would have been her 27th birthday. Taylor’s name was on posters and on t-shirts – some carried flowers for her as a birthday remembrance. We marched from the Cathedral through Harlem in the pouring rain, stopping at the statues of anti-slavery figures Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, chanting anti-racist slogans, cheered on with drumbeats, whistles and salutes of solidarity.
Today, the name of George Floyd who was brutally killed by a police officer on May 25, is known world-wide. His cold-blooded murder, caught on video camera, sent shock waves around the world. Due to the efforts of...
