On May 25, 2020 on the corner of 38th and Chicago, George Floyd was murdered by then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. At the same time, a group is working hard to preserve plywood murals in ...
On May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, who was Black, by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes during an arrest. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted on murder ...
Terrence Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, has spoken out against a joke made during the Kevin Hart roast that ...
The mayor of Minneapolis and his staff are defying a community survey by recommending a group to develop a site at George ...
In some ways, George Floyd's story was an Everyman's story. He grew up poor, he struggled in school and eventually fell into substance abuse. Most of the people he crossed paths with remember him as ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was originally published in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s death. It has been republished as Minneapolis is set to mark his passing, five years later. George ...
Five years ago, the fight for racial justice reached a fever pitch when George Floyd was killed by a White police officer, Derek Chauvin. The world watched in horror as Chauvin placed his knee on ...
The death of George Floyd lit a fire in the U.S. in the summer of 2020 — and the years that followed. Floyd died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for more than 9 minutes. Images caught ...
Four years after George Floyd’s murder, two Washington Post reporters reflect on the retrenchment of the racial-justice movement sparked by his death. In their book, “His Name Is George Floyd,” Robert ...
On May 25, 2020, Houston native George Floyd was killed after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, while Floyd was handcuffed and ...
For years, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been criticized by some for his response to riots in his state after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020. That criticism picked ...