It's been 566 days since George Floyd was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer.

His death, along with the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmad Aubrey, and others, spurred millions

of people from France to Australia to Mexico and beyond to protest all over the world

in support of Black Lives. Welcome to Heart Truths, I'm Nyla Boudou.

Since October 2020, we've been doing special podcast episodes each month looking at the

issue of systemic racism. As part of the Axios project, we've been calling Heart Truths.

We've used that lens to look at voting rights, the uphill climb, finding a job after prison,

even the Irrequeu national lacrosse teams fight to be included in the Olympics. And so much

more. Now, to end the year, we're looking past our borders and how the protests over

the unfair treatment of Black Americans became a global movement.

A global movement that has spurred activists in the UK, indigenous and feminist groups in Mexico,

even affected museum collections in Europe. Today, we'll hear how calls for change have

reverberated widely and ask whether anything has tangibly changed as a result.

Black Lives have always mattered. We have always been important. On June 3, 2020, thousands

of people gathered in London's Hyde Park in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests

in the US. In the weeks and months following George Floyd's murder, UK protests for Black

Lives became the largest in the world outside the US.

Someone else's death or someone else's trauma is like a trauma. It's like a community

grieving. So when the blood is shed in the black community, it feels like everyone,

like it could be like my sister, my mom, my brother.

Abba M.Wat is one of the founders of Justice for Black Lives, an advocacy group that helped

organize these protests. These massive crowds were spurred by the murder of George Floyd

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