Publication Date: 2020-06-04
Jeanette Kwakye and Darren Campbell discuss the role sportsmen and sportswomen are playing in the global protests following the death of George Floyd. We hear from 16-year-old tennis star Coco Gauff, who gave an emotional speech during a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Florida. Karima Christmas-Kelly, who plays for the Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA, recounts the demonstrations she has attended at the place where Floyd died. We are joined from Denver by NFL journalist Lindsay Jones, and we also get the thoughts of Schalke footballer Weston McKennie, who was asked by a referee to remove a black armband on which he had written ‘Justice for George Floyd’. Plus former sprinter Chris Lambert reflects on his article published in Esquire, ‘A letter to my white friends’.
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