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# Black Lives Matter, Racial Justice and Catalysing Necessary Systems Change

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*In 2020, the US-based Black Lives Matter and other racial justice movements pushed economies, societies and businesses around the world to confront colonial histories and histories of systemic racial bias – but not without reaction and pushback.*

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