Angela Davis: 'Racism is embedded in the fabric of this country'

Legendary activist Angela Davis on the new push to end systemic racism in the US after decades of struggle for justice.

Activist and scholar Angela Davis knows a thing or two about standing up to the establishment.

In the 1970s, she was a household name around the world, as she became the third woman in US history to make the "Most Wanted" list and was sent to jail for more than a year for her connections with the Black Power movement of the time.

'There's no trust': George Floyd, the police and racism in the US

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on the Floyd murder trial, justice and calls to 'defund' the police in the US.

As the Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison is the chief prosecutor of the four policemen charged in the murder of George Floyd on the streets of Minneapolis on May 25.

More than 30 years ago, Ellison was a student activist in Minnesota, where he organised the community to stand up to police brutality.

Years later he became the first Muslim member of Congress, and the first Black American to be elected to a statewide position in Minnesota.

Monuments of history or bigotry? The politics of statues

Should historic statues remain standing even if they celebrate racism? Plus, the man behind Rwanda's hate media.

The police killing of George Floyd, a Black American, and the weeks of protests that followed in the United States have sent ripples across the Atlantic. The defining image of the demonstrations in the UK has been the toppling of a statue in the port city of Bristol; a monument to Edward Colston, a slave trader whose wealth helped build the city. Colston's fall has offended those who say you cannot erase the past and that those who profited from slavery should not be judged by today's moral standards. Tell that to the thousands of British demonstrators, not just people of colour, who are out to tell the real story about Britain's role in the formation of the slave trade - the legacy of which spans the globe.

Has the United States turned a corner on racism?

The son of Martin Luther King Jr reflects on what has and has not changed over the decades in race relations in the US.

In 1968, African American civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.

"Fifty-two years later, all over the streets of America, Blacks and whites and others are saying 'Black lives matter'," his son, Martin Luther King III tells The Bottom Line's Steve Clemons.

"We're still saying to the nation 'Treat us with dignity and respect and like the human beings that we are'."

Caught on camera: Police brutality and racism in Trump's America

How the video of a Black man's murder set the United States ablaze. Plus, drone investigations from on high.

Racially charged social unrest has been sweeping America on a scale not seen in decades. Showdowns are taking place in city after city between demonstrators and police, as authoritarian noises and tactics come from the Trump White House. From the phone camera that captured the police killing of George Floyd, to Twitter flagging how dangerous the president's tweets can be, to all those videos showing police attacking journalists and then finally to the lengths that the White House will go to to get a photo opportunity - there is no shortage of media angles to this story.