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BBC OS: 2020/06/07 23:06 GMT: BBC OS: Conversations on race

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BBC OS: Conversations on race

2020/06/07 23:06 GMT

2020/06/07 23:06 GMT: BBC OS: Conversations on race

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Powerful conversations about race and racism in America

Powerful conversations about race and racism in America.

The death of George Floyd has provoked a global response and galvanised opinion. We bring together African Americans to discuss race and share experiences of racism in the US. We hear from people who have sought justice from police aggression, from those attempting reconciliation and from police officers themselves. What changes do they want to see to move America in the right direction? 

We hear from Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, who died in 2014 under similar circumstances to George Floyd, and whose dying words “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry for protests against police brutality. We also speak to Curtis Hayes Jr, whose passionate exchange with two other black men was viewed millions of times this week, and to Tonya Trumbo, the woman who hugged a police officer at a protest in Louisville, Kentucky. And lastly to Joe Gamaldi, a police officer in Houston, Texas, and Samuel – not his last name – an African American officer in Kansas City, Missouri.

(Photo: A makeshift memorial to George Floyd near the spot where he died while in custody of the Minneapolis police. Credit: KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

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