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We start in the US, where President Biden has hailed the verdict of a court in Georgia which found three white men guilty of murdering a young black man, Ahmaud Arbery, while he was out jogging in the city of Brunswick. But Mr Biden said the killing, last year, was a devastating reminder of how far America still had to go in the fight for racial justice.

The defendants - Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William Bryan - chased Mr Arbery through their mostly- white neighbourhood before one of them shot him three times - claiming that he "looked like a burglar".

It was more than two months before anyone was arrested over his death.

For more Newsday has been talking to Pastor Abra Lattany-Reed from the Harper Chapel United Methodist Church, who has lived in Brunswick all her life, and followed the case - and what it says about racism in America - very closely. We started by asking for her reaction to the verdict.

(Photo: People dance outside the Glynn County Courthouse as the jury deliberates in the trial of the killers of Ahmaud Arbery on November 24, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia. Greg McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan were found guilty in the February, 2020 fatal shooting of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

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