‘Piecemeal reforms have not saved the lives of Black people’: anti-racism, police brutality protests raise visibility, urgency of long-overdue reforms, say activists, some Parliamentarians

Even as support for structural reforms seeps into the mainstream, some noted it’s dismaying that some politicians continue to deny the existence of systemic racism.
Demonstrators in Cincinnati, Ohio, march in protest over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. All 50 states have staged demonstrations, which have caught on in Toronto, Montreal, and numerous Canadian cities and around the world.
The scenes of solidarity expressed on the streets, where tens of thousands of people across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, have been marching for several days with their fellow Black compatriots, point to a growing recognition tha...

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