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USA TODAY NETWORK BOSTON There’s a long list of Derek Chauvins, Sirad, an activist with Mass Action Against Police Brutality, shouted into a microphone set up outside of the Massachusetts State House Wednesday evening. Flanked by families of people killed by police in the state Sirad, who did not share her last name out of fear of police retaliation for her activism, began to list the names of officers who played a role in deadly police encounters with the public, calling them Massachusetts’ most wanted. One day after Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd while on duty as a Minneapolis police officer, Mass Action Against Police Brutality held a press conference in front of the State House. Rain and rolling thunderstorms kept the crowd small, but organizers did not back down from their message that their work must continue. ....
2020 In Review: A Year Of Tragedy And Triumph For Black Lives Matter Ife Franklin raises her first during a protest in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood on June 04, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. Maddie Meyer / Getty Images 2020 In Review: A Look Back At Black Lives Matter 2020 will likely be remembered as the year of the Pandemic, but the year also marked a sea change in racial justice activism, as Black Lives Matter protests brought calls for police reform from the streets to city halls and state houses across the country â including Massachusetts. In Georgia in February, an African American, Ahmaud Abery, was shot to death by a white man while jogging; In March, a 26-year-old Black woman, Breonna Taylor, was gunned down in her own home by police executing a warrant for someone else. These cases provoked angry local reactions, but It was not until the killing of an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis caught on video tape that a national wave of protests erupt ....
Pandemic. Politics. Protest. Those were the central issues that dominated 2020. Our photographers selected images from our coverage that best capture and illustrate those major storylines of 2020. Below are the images that told the story of the protests. We also have photo highlights of the year in politics and the pandemic. You can find a complete collection here of more than 100 of the very best shots WBUR took in 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) April 23 | Protesters screamed out of their windows, part of a mobile caravan driving past Baker’s home in Swampscott to protest the closures in the state due to the pandemic. ....