As the world\u00a0 awaited the fate of\u00a0\u00a0Derek Chauvin\u2013the Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of killing George Floyd\u2013Black Lives Matter co-founder\u00a0Melina Abdullah\u00a0joined Robert Scheer on \u201cScheer Intelligence\u201d to discuss what he calls the most successful social justice movement the country has perhaps ever seen. In the timely episode, Abdullah, a lifelong activist and California State University, Los Angeles professor, traces the roots of the BLM movement back to 2013 and notes that Floyd\u2019s killing was the moment the \u201cworld was cracked wide open\u201d for everyone to see the deep-seated systemic racism at the core of every American institution. She adds, however, that regardless of a guilty verdict there is still a lot of work to be done in order to truly achieve racial justice.<\/p>\n
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