Friends take action for Black Lives Matter 

Clun Valley Quakers hold a short demonstration

by Rebecca Hardy 19th June 2020

Clun Valley Quakers held a short demonstration at the centuries-old ‘African’s Grave’ in Bishops Castle churchyard last week in support of Black Lives Matter. In their statement on 11 June, Friends said they condemned ‘the systemic racism that has led to the deaths of George Floyd and so many black people at the hands of the police in the US and here in Britain’. It said it was ‘humbled by the huge contribution to our country that BAME [Black, Asian and minority ethnic] people have made as health workers, carers, delivery drivers and service workers during the pandemic’.