The prime minister believes that tearing down statues is tantamount to “lying about our history” and that it is “absurd and shameful” for a monument to Winston Churchill to be boarded-up in anticipation of protests this weekend.

Rallies are held in countries around the world in solidarity with the “Black Lives Matter” protest movement against racial discrimination in the United States.

Trump came close to deploying 10,000 active-duty troops to quell protests in Washington, DC.

The coronavirus crisis and the current protests in the United States over racism and police brutality have exposed the massive racial and socioeconomic inequalities in the United States, an American scholar says.

A political commentator says discrimination against African-American is a systemic phenomenon and the US leaders have no plans to change that. 

Trump “openly advocates for discrimination not only against African Americans but all people of color,” an African American journalist says.