The vandalised BLM banner at Disley Meeting Photo: courtesy Bridget Dunbar
Black Lives Matter
Meetings around the country pledged to tackle racism and look deep within themselves to understand its roots.
by Rebecca Hardy
8th January 2021
2020 was also marked by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which swept the world following the death of George Floyd in the US. The Quaker organisation American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) condemned the police violence surrounding the killing, branding it ‘the consequence of a racist system that disproportionately targets people of colour for violence, imprisonment, and premature death’.
