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Clashes erupt in Minneapolis after police shoot dead 20-year-old Black man
•The mother of Daunte Wright told a crowd earlier Sunday evening that he called her to say he had been pulled over by police. Soon after, her son's girlfriend told her he had been shot
Premier League launches racism action plan outlining actions to eradicate racial prejudice
•The plan outlines a series of commitments aimed at creating greater access to opportunities and career progression for black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups in football, and actions to eradicate racial prejudice.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: IOC chief Thomas Bach says Games cannot become 'marketplace of demonstrations'
•World Athletics chief and newly enshrined IOC member Sebastian Coe has backed athletes' right to "take the knee" on the Olympic podium, as long as it was done with "complete respect" for other competitors.
Bundesliga: Borussia Dortmund's Youssoufa Moukoko racially abused, threatened at Schalke junior game
•In a clip from the German FA’s livestream of the game, fans can be heard screaming threats and apparently racist comments at Moukoko after his second goal.
Ex-cop charged with George Floyd's death released on $1mn bail; 'far from getting justice,' says victim's family
•The other three police officers charged in Floyd's death had previously posted bond amounts of $750,000 and have been free pending trial
FIA investigating Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton for Breonna Taylor t-shirt at Tuscan Grand Prix, says report
•Lewis Hamilton, who won the Tuscan GP, wore a t-shirt bearing a message that said "Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor" before and after the race, during an anti-racism ceremony and television interviews.
Formula 1: Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton wants Ferrari to do more in fight against racism
•Hamilton took a knee with 11 drivers before the at the Styrian GP while wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt and then gave a raised fist salute on his car and on the podium after winning.
As BLM protests and COVID-19 sweep through US, how each will shape the other, and the country, remains to be seen
Kala Ranganathan •The US is caught up in the twin tsunamis of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic, each impacting the other in unknown ways, in an election year.
Should history be revised through erasure? Defacing of Churchill statue in London's Black Lives Matter protest reignites debate
Samrat •The arguments over statues, as witnessed most recently in the defacing of the Winston Churchill statue in London's Parliament Square during a #BlackLivesMatter protest, are power struggles of clashing identities — black versus white, Hindu against Muslim, or communist versus capitalist.
RTJ4 review: Run the Jewels' cathartic new album makes for an empowering weapon of civil disobedience
Prahlad Srihari •Just when it felt like we were short of words, Run The Jewels' Killer Mike and El-P offer us a free catalogue of protest poetry with RTJ4