Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 February 2022

ANGELICA'S BOOKS: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

 



To Kill a Mockingbird is a bildungsroman and crime novel written by Harper Lee and published in 1960, which in the same year the Pulitzer Prize.

The protagonist and the narrator of this book is Jean Louise Finch, a child nicknamed Scout. She and her brother Jem, orphans of their mother, live in Maycomb (in Alabama) with a dark-skinned governess, Calpurnia, and their father, the lawyer Atticus Finch.  

Friday, 5 June 2020

BLACK LIVES MATTER




On May 25, Minneapolis police officers arrested George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, after he was accused of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. 20 minutes after the first squad car arrived at the scene, Mr. Floyd was unconscious and pinned beneath three police officers, showing no signs of life.
The police officer, Derek Chauvin, pushed his knee on George Floyd’s neck and after about 8 minutes he died…
Immediately a very big group of people began to protest in a peaceful way against these abuse of violence from police officers.