From Martin Luther King Jr to Mikki Kendall, here’s a list to help you better understand how seeds of discontent are sown in society Over the last few days, cities across the US have been up in flames, with millions of citizens marching on the streets to protest against the recent brutal killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police.
The #BlackLivesMatter movement is hardly new. It has a long life online and off it. But at the moment it seems to have reached an inflection point—such that in spite of the threat of the covid-19 pandemic, people are out in large numbers, in different parts of the world, brushing aside physical distancing norms and any fear of contracting the disease.