Latest news and comment on the death of George Floyd
September 2025
FBI fires agents who kneeled during 2020 racial justice protest
Agents kneeled in Washington DC during protests following the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis
August 2025
Jury awards $2.2m to LA protester shot in face with less-lethal projectile in 2020
Cellin Gluck alleged in lawsuit that he was subject to excessive force during protest against police brutality
July 2025
Fighting Back
Has America learned anything from the George Floyd uprisings?
Eric Morrison-Smith and David Turner III
The response to the demonstrations fell short. But they marked the beginning of a new era that calls for action
May 2025
The Long Wave
What I learned from the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter uprising
Newsletter
We demanded justice after George Floyd’s death. Donald Trump made things worse, but we fight on
Al Sharpton
First Edition newsletter
Monday briefing: How racial justice is going backwards, five years on from the killing of George Floyd
Newsletter
George Floyd’s family fights for sacred ground where he took his last breath: ‘That’s my blood’
The race report
Five years on from Black Lives Matter, has the UK made progress on ethnic equalities?
They were shot by police at the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. ‘I came home a different person’
If you think the Defund movement failed, you’re missing the bigger picture
M Adams and Miski Noor
The panel
How did 2020’s Black Lives Matter movement change the world? Our panel responds
Osita Nwanevu, Fabiana Moraes, Adam Elliott-Cooper, Zanele Mji, Abeo Jackson and Daniel Gyamerah
Critics say the movement to defund the police failed. But Austin and Seattle are seeing progress
Democracy and justice
DoJ moves to cancel police reform deals with Minneapolis and Louisville
TV tonight
TV tonight: a powerful film about George Floyd’s murder
‘We’re going backwards’: Black Lives Matter’s Nekima Levy Armstrong on Trump’s US and the murder of George Floyd
US adults’ belief in impact of BLM protests consistently decreased since 2020 – study
Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd review – timely, human-scale recap of momentous times
April 2025
The featured essay
American corporations didn’t want to diversify, anyway
After the murder of George Floyd, many companies turned to diversity initiatives that weren’t actually designed to bring change. That’s why they’re dropping them as quickly as they created them
February 2025
Ex-officer convicted in fatal shooting of Black man at New Mexico gas station
Trump heads to New Orleans as first sitting president to attend Super Bowl
