Black Lives Matter, a movement that received an impetus in May, 2020, has been proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize. Founded in the United States in 2013, the movement became a rallying cry after a Black person George Floyd died at the hands of the US police.

Black Lives Matter movement honoured for peaceful civil disobedience

Police have removed handcuffs shackling Jacob Blake, who is paralyzed after US police shot him repeatedly in the back, to his hospital bed and stopped monitoring him, Blake's lawyer said Friday. African-American Blake, 29, was shot seven times in the back point blank over the weekend by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin and has no movement from the waist down.

Video: Paralysed US police shooting victim Jacob Blake released from handcuffs in hospital bed

Thousands of people took part in a march in Washington to denounce racism, on the anniversary of the march in 1963 where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr made his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.

Washington: Thousands march to denounce racism on anniversary of King's speech