Black Lives Matter Movement
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Crystal Palace's Wilfried Zaha to stop taking knee before Premier League games
•"Taking the knee is becoming something that we just do now and that's not enough for me. I'm not going to take the knee, I'm not going to wear Black Lives Matter on the back of my shirt because it feels like it's a target. Unless action is going to happen, don't speak to me about it," Zaha said.
Millwall fans back players' support for Black Lives Matter movement after booing them in previous game
•Upon entering the stadium ahead of their team’s home game against Queens Park Rangers, Millwall’s supporters received a printed statement that read: “The eyes of the world are on this football club tonight — your club — and they want us to fail.”
Seven cops in NY's Rochester suspended as Black man’s suffocation video roils city
•The police body camera footage showed the man, Daniel Prude, handcuffed and sitting in a street, wearing nothing but a white hood
Formula 1: Drivers to support fight against racism at Austrian Grand Prix in individual gestures
•Hamilton praised some drivers for speaking out against racism, but he still feels others need to do more and he raised that in their briefing.
Donald Trump delivers divisive culture war message at Mount Rushmore in bid to win second term, barely mentions pandemic
•The scene at Mount Rushmore was the latest sign of how Trump appears, by design or default, increasingly disconnected from the intense concern among Americans about the COVID-19 crisis gripping the country
Premier League: 'White Lives Matter' banner investigated by police, Burnley to issue lifetime bans
•The aircraft came into view moments after players and coaches from Manchester City and Burnley took a knee at kickoff on Monday in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. It circled City's Etihad Stadium for several minutes.
'White Lives Matter' sprayed on statue of African American tennis legend Arthur Ashe
•The Arthur Ashe monument was dedicated in 1996 to memorialize the Richmond native and counterbalance the string of statues on Memorial Avenue dedicated to Confederate leaders.
Microsoft’s Github to move away from terms like ‘master’, ‘slave’ to back Black Lives Matter movement
Trendingdesk •Google's Chromium project and Android operating system too have urged developers to move away from terms like 'blacklist' and 'whitelist'.
USA president Donald Trump says he will stop watching NFL, soccer matches if players continue to kneel during national anthem
•Trump has been a vocal critic of players kneeling during the anthem, previously tweeting that NFL players who did so were “disrespecting our Country & our Flag”.
Abhay Deol criticises celebs posting about Black Lives Matter: 'Create your own actions relevant to your country'
Fp Staff •Abhay Deol said Indian celebrities and the middle class have turned a blind eye to the problems pertaining to the migrant crisis and marginalisation of minorities in their own country.