As a result of Kanye West's recent string of divisive and anti-Semitic comments, luxury fashion house Balenciaga announced that it would no longer collaborate with him. It was the first company to do so.
But the group has faced mushrooming questions about why it isn’t as vocal about discrimination in their own country.
Thierry Henry, one of the greatest footballers of all time, opens up about how only worldwide fame can help to protect from racism, while the story of how racism ended the career of Adam Goodes, the legendary Australian Rules footballer, could well move you to tears.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, which event was followed by widespread rioting. And then in 2020, the worst black riots since 1968 broke out in the country in protest against the killing of Floyd and Breonna Taylor and other innocent black people at the hands of white cops.
On Sunday, Hardik Pandya, who made a brilliant 21-ball 60, went down on a knee with his right arm raised after reaching his half-century.
Carlos Brathwaite believes 'legislative' changes are the need of the hour as according to him, taking a knee seems to be just papering over the crack.
The hosts are also expected to show their support to the movement during the series following discussions within the squad.
'President Trump is a big fan of The Villages. He did not hear the one statement made on the video...What he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters,' White House spokesman Judd Deere said.
On Tuesday, the President said that he would sign such an executive order, one night after police thwarted demonstrators' attempts to tear down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson near the White House.
The global protest of 'black lives matter' may not be relevant in the specific sense, but when viewed as an outrage against the 'politically-discriminated', it resonates globally. Indeed 'all lives matter' but the gut-wrenching diminution of the African American reality, especially as personified by the George Floyd incident, if left unspecified and generalized as 'all lives matter', inadvertently glosses over the larger undertones of racism.
