
March on Washington DC
The civil rights protest follows recent unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake
We'll be following the civil rights protest in the US capital which was organised after the killing of George Floyd. It also comes after this week's unrest over the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The march has been organised on the 57th anniversary of one of the most famous civil rights marches in US history, when Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. We'll reflect on the events of the week and look ahead to how America's racial divide might figure in the upcoming US election.
Dr Megan Murray from Harvard University is with us to talk through the latest coronavirus news, including an apparent drop in cases in Africa and research on the "tiny" risk to school-aged children in the UK. Also, we speak to a journalist in Spain who obtained a widely-shared video showing a bar crowded with young people, no masks, singing and shouting close together. It's now the focus of a national debate around whether young Spanish people are taking restrictions seriously enough.
Picture: DeJuana Thompson from the organisation "Woke Vote", wears a Breonna Taylor face mask while waiting inside the Lincoln Memorial as demonstrators gather for the "Get Your Knee Off Our Necks" March on Washington DC. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Pool)
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