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Global frustration with injustice boils over after Floyd's death
Younger generation seen driving movements against racism and colonialism's legacies
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Protesters outside the Minneapolis Police and Fire Union offices on Friday. As "Black Lives Matter" graffiti and banners appear around the world, and monuments glorifying colonial and Confederate figures are destroyed, institutions in Britain and America are debating whether to sever their links with colonial or slavery-era names.
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Nirmal Ghosh US Bureau Chief In Washington, Nirmal Ghosh
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Before his death on May 25, as he lay handcuffed face down on a Minneapolis street with a Caucasian police officer's knee on his neck, Mr George Floyd was just another African American man.
Yet his fate now resonates around the world.
