(7 Jun 2020) Thousands of demonstrators turned out for a noisy, peaceful rally against racism in Rome's sprawling People's Square on Sunday.
With the majority wearing masks against COVID-19 contagion, participants listened for several hours to speeches and held up hand-made placards reading 'Black Lives Matter' and 'It's a White Problem'.
Gabriele Planamente, a film student in the square, said the call against racism was stronger than fear of the virus.
Rome's first major rally against racism had many organizers, including a 25-year-old Roman student, Denise Berhane,  an organization called Neri Italiani – Black Italians,  a women's group, FridaysforFuture Rome, a US expatriates' organization and the Sardines, a grass-roots Italian protest group which encourages civic involvement.
At one point, the protesters - most of them young and some with children or young siblings - took the knee and raised a fist in solidarity with those fighting racism

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