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Racism in US in rare spotlight at debate at UN rights body

by Associated Press
| June 17, 2020 10:03 AM

GENEVA (AP) — The brother of George Floyd made a heartfelt plea on Wednesday to the U.N.’s top human rights body, urging it to launch intense international scrutiny of systemic racism, the killing of black people by police and violence against peaceful protesters in the United States.

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