Heritier Lumumba reclaimed his name and found strength in African history. Will it change Collingwood and the AFL?

On May 31, 2020, a sea of people filled the streets of the Fairfax District in Los Angeles. Five police helicopters circled above their heads. Two LAPD squad cars were set alight and burned.

Days earlier, the world had watched George Floyd take his last breaths. Now emotions reached boiling point — anger expressed in a cacophony of dissent. Riot police arrived with rubber bullets, batons and tear gas.

Played through car windows and chanted by the crowd was the anthem of the uprising, YG and Nipsey Hussle’s ‘FDT’: “F*** Donald Trump!”

Two hundred metres away, a 33-year-old man and his wife anxiously peered out their window, their one-year-old son playing with a toy truck. In the days that followed, they would join the crowds on the…