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riting’s on the wall: A mural at a vigil for George Floyd on 25 May , two years after he was killed by Minneapolis police.

Black History Month: What is there to embrace?

The sanitising of Martin Luther King’s legacy sustains the racial violence in the United States

2020 in pictures

Mail & Guardian pictures editor Paul Botes presents some of the most striking images of 2020

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA – AUGUST 26: A general view of the court after the postponed game five of the first round of the NBA Playoffs between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Houston Rockets at The Field House at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on August 26, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The NBA announced the postponement of today’s games in response to the Milwaukee Bucks boycotting their game in protest against the shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha, Wisconsin police. (Kim Klement – Pool/Getty Images)
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More than a game: NBA players in wildcat strike to protest racial injustice

In 1961, Bill Russell led his fellow Boston Celtics in refusing to play in an NBA game in protest of systemic racism. It happened again on Wednesday.

Renee Bach, an American missionary who moved to Jinja, Uganda at age 18. With no formal medical training, Bach started experimenting with medical procedures she’d learn from YouTube. (Image: wjct.org)

End voluntourism and the white saviour industrial complex

We need to dismantle the unequal systems we have upheld in Africa. Divesting from missionary tours is a good place to start

Protestors raise placards in front of Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park.  (Chika Oduah)

America’s ‘Black Mecca’ rallies against racist police brutality

Known as a hub of revolution during the Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta has once again been at the forefront of police brutality protests in the US

The makeshift memorial surrounding Cup Foods where George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis  police officer on Sunday, May 31, 2020 in Minneapolis , Minnesota. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Understanding the violent protests across America

The protests are rooted not in the pandemic, but in centuries of discrimination

We cannot reform ourselves out of the times we are in

To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being…