UK Black Lives Matter Protesters Block Heathrow Airport Road

Activists linked to the U.S.-based group Black Lives Matter blocked a road Friday leading to London's Heathrow Airport and held protests in other British cities. Organizer Joshua Virasami told the BBC that the movement - founded to protest the killings of black people by American police - was needed "in Britain and all over the world.'' U.K. Black Lives Matter said in a statement it was holding a "shutdown'' of roads in London and other cities to...

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