The reckoning goes global
Jun 12, 2020
3 minutes
By Suyin Haynes/London
PHOTOGRAPH BY MOHAMMED BADRA
WHEN LONDON-BASED LAWYER AND women’s-rights activist Shola Mos-Shogbamimu first heard the news of George Floyd’s killing on May 25, her gut reaction was raw anger. “George Floyd was every black person in that video,” she says. “Every one of us can identify with that knee on our necks, not letting up, with that pressure increasing until it suffocates us.”
Floyd’s final words, “I can’t breathe,” have been emblazoned on placards and chanted by crowds from Sydney to Cape Town, Paris to Seoul,
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