Boris Johnson and Joe Biden met in Carbis Bay on the eve of the G7 Summit
Carbis Bay, England:
Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave U.S. President Joe Biden a framed {photograph} of a British mural depicting Black 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the British chief’s workplace stated on Thursday.
Biden reciprocated by presenting Johnson, a eager bicycle owner, with a U.S.-made bicycle and helmet and giving a silk scarf and leather-based bag made by navy wives for his spouse Carrie.
Johnson’s reward, introduced throughout a G7 summit which marks Biden’s first official abroad engagement and an opportunity to reaffirm trans-Atlantic ties, is a nod to the Black Lives Matter motion that has pushed race relations to the fore in each nations.
Douglass escaped slavery in the US, occurring to change into an abolitionist chief who toured Britain and Eire, with which Biden has ancestral ties.
Biden cited Douglass in a 2020 speech on race at a time when the nation was confronting questions on modern and historic racial injustice sparked by a protest motion that additionally unfold to Britain and prompted an identical outpouring.
The mural is painted on the wall of a residential road nook in Edinburgh, a metropolis the place Douglass stayed on his tour, by artist Ross Blair who used the hashtag #blacklivesmatter when first unveiling the piece on-line in 2020.
The black and white mural portrait of Douglass was photographed by twin British-U.S. nationwide Melissa Highton.
U.S. first woman Jill Biden was given a primary version copy of ‘The Apple Tree’ – a set of quick tales by 20th century British creator Daphne du Maurier, who lived in Cornwall, the picturesque nook of England that’s internet hosting the G7 summit.
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