George Perry Floyd Jr.

À l'occasion du deuxième anniversaire de la mort de George Floyd, Candace revient sur Minneapolis et sur les conséquences violentes et racistes qui ont alimenté l'essor mondial de BLM et rempli ses coffres.

In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow calls for a “reverse Great Migration” of African Americans from the North back to the South to upend today’s political power structures while reclaiming the land and culture they left behind. South to Black Power does more than illustrate Blow’s enlightening ideas; we journey through Blow’s personal story, from his childhood in Louisiana to his role as father to young adult children in New York City, showing us the hard-won truths behind his vision for the future.

3 Brothers compiles Radio Raheem’s death scenes from Do the Right Thing with real footage of the deaths of Eric Garner in 2014 and George Floyd last week. All three men, including the fictional one, were killed by white police officers restraining them by their necks on the street. The film premiered during Lee’s appearance on CNN’s I Can’t Breathe: Black Men Living and Dying in America on May 31, anchored by Don Lemon.

A year after George Floyd’s death, ABC News looks back at its impact, from the extraordinary movement that swept the country to the racial reckoning that has touched nearly every corner of society.

Depuis sa naissance en 1865, au lendemain de la guerre civile américaine, l'histoire du Ku Klux Klan est indissociable de celle des Etats-Unis. Les débats sur l'esclavage, le populisme des années folles, la lutte pour les droits civiques dans les années soixante, la montée de l'extrême droite au début du XXIe siècle, le Klan semble avoir toujours incarné la face sombre de la nation, avec ses zones d'ombre et ses angles morts.