Black Lives Matter

US Presidential candidate, Dr Cornel West tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why he thinks US foreign policy on Israel is enabling destruction in Gaza, how both Biden and Trump are problematic for oppressed groups, and why it’s difficult to have hope to change the world without also being in despair at the suffering we see, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.

Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to to talk about her life and work, how anger has fuelled her poetry at different stages of her life – touching on topics such as domestic abuse, segregation, Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump – and recounts her experience of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Kiley Reid on Ways to Change the World about the importance of finding stability whilst being a writer, the impact of having a theatre background on her writing, and her thoughts on being social media savvy as an author.

The Black Lives Matter group has been fighting to be heard since 2013 – and the phrase itself is now being seen on streets and screens all around the world after the killing of George Floyd. But how did the movement get here? And how did it begin?

Mothers involved with the Black Lives Matter movement speak at the Oxford Union. The panel includes Trayvn Martin, Michael Brown and Sandra Bland.

It started in Florida with the death of an unarmed black teenager: 17 year old Trayvon Martin, fatally shot as he walked from a store. Tonight some of the African American mothers who’ve lost their children to police shootings and alleged racial violence are speaking at the Oxford Union.

As President elect Donald Trump considers his top cabinet appointments – we speak to DeRay Mckesson, one of the leading figures in America’s Black Lives Matter movement – about his country’s political future, at a time when open hostility and intolerance have never been more extreme.

America has more than two million people inside its prisons. But in 2014, a record number of prisoners were released after they were found to have been wrongfully convicted.