How racial justice is going backwards, five years on from the killing of George Floyd...

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Good morning. I’m Aamna Mohdin, the Guardian’s community affairs correspondent, and I’ll be bringing you First Edition alongside Archie over the next couple of months.

It’s been five years since George Floyd’s agonising cry – “I can’t breathe” – sent shockwaves around the world. His killing by a white police officer sparked what may have been the largest social movement in US history, and protests in the UK were the most widespread since the abolition of slavery. Millions took to the streets, led by young people, to assert the power of three simple words: Black Lives Matter.

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More than 260 towns and cities across the UK held protests in June and July 2020, from Monmouth in south Wales to Shetland in Scotland. An unprecedented reckoning that featured statements of solidarity from institutions, including the Bank of England and Cambridge university, and pledges to pay reparations by the Church of England, was followed by an intense backlash. Anti-migrant rioters attacked mosques and set fire to asylum hotels. Donald Trump returned to the US presidency last year and Reform UK surged in this month’s local elections, vowing to dismantle equality initiatives.

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Imam Nadim S. Ali

This Day marks the 5th anniversary of the assassination of George Floyd. I just happened to be in Minneapolis for a conference; so I made it a point to visit George Floyd Square The spot in which his life was mercilessly taken. The people of Minneapolis paid homage to him, and the many victims of police shootings in this country.

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