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Five years ago, Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck. As the 46-year-old gasped for air and called for his mother, Chauvin – a white police officer – kept his knee in place for more than nine mi

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Five years ago, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests erupted across the US and globe following the horrific murder of George Floyd. ‘I can’t breathe’ became a rallying cry of the protests and wider movem

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In June 2020, the US and much of Europe were convulsed by the anti-racist Black Lives Matter protests

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In 2023, violent unrest focused the country’s attention on a small corner of cardiff. how did the community recover once the cameras were gone?

Riots sparked by the deaths of two young boys in Cardiff two years ago put the area of Ely into the national spotlight. But afterwards, something remarkable happened as a community worked out how to r

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On the evening of 7th May 2025, three New York Police Department (NYPD) helicopters were hovering over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus in upper Manhattan. Police vans arrived soon aft