Black Lives Matter movement News

Former champion Naomi Osaka is wearing a different facemask for each of her matches at the US Open this year. Each mask carries the name of a Black American and aims to highlight racial injustice in the United States to a wider audience. Osaka, born to a Haitian father and Japanese mother, had earlier said that before being a tennis player, she is a black woman.

While talking to WION, Cottrell said that he won’t oppose taking a knee because he's with the movement and for the movement. The England-West Indies Test series, which was the first international series in the post-COVID era, witnessed players, umpires and coaching staff taking a knee before the start of the match.

He also talked about the brainwashing and said, "We have been brainwashed, and not just black people, white people are being brainwashed in different ways," he said.

Singer Justin Bieber has vowed to "shine a light on racism", and says he will do his part to stand up and make sure everyone is equal.

The president of one of the largest police organisations in the US has apologised for historical mistreatment of minorities, calling it a "dark side of our shared history" that must be acknowledged and overcome.

President Barack Obama condemned as "cowardly" a shooting that killed three police officers and wounded three more in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge.

Baltimore police officer Edward Nero was acquitted on Monday of four charges in the 2015 death of black detainee Freddie Gray.