“For Obama, George Floyd is just the latest in a long line of racial injustices and inequity that have existed longer than the country has, and in his message to the Black and African American communities, he offers his support and encouragement for fighting for peaceful change.”
“The first national Stephen Lawrence Day on 22 April 2019 celebrates the life and legacy of a young man murdered in a racist attack when he was just 18. Here Stephen’s mother – DMU Chancellor Baroness Doreen Lawrence – talks about how we should remember him.”
“After Biden was sworn in as the nation’s 46th president, Gorman read “The Hill We Climb,” building on a tradition of poets — including Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco — who have read for incoming Democratic presidents. Gorman is the youngest of these inaugural poets to offer her verse.”
