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Yuen: How George Floyd’s aunt healed her heart and lent her voice for justice
Angela Harrelson was Floyd’s closest relative in Minnesota. She’s dedicated the past five years to gathering community so ...
Fact checking right-wing media’s claims about George Floyd and Derek Chauvin
A new narrative is taking root in the story of George Floyd and the former police officer convicted of murdering him. It is ...
DOJ abandons police reform settlements over deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor
DOJ is abandoning efforts for court-approved settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville after finding they had violated ...
The end of federal oversight and calls to pardon George Floyd’s convicted killer could undermine police reforms, Minneapolis leaders warn
Progress toward more fair policing could be undermined by a push from some activists and lawmakers on the political right to ...
Trump administration drops police oversight spurred by Floyd, Taylor killings
The Trump administration is ending efforts to secure agreements for federal oversight of police departments in Minneapolis ...
U.S. abandons police reform accords sought over deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor
The move comes four days before the May 25 five-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was murdered ...
George Floyd: Minneapolis, St. Paul events mark his death, community response
Sunday, May 25, from 12 to 8 p.m. at Phelps Field Park, 701 E. 39th St., Minneapolis, the organization hosts the Justice for ...
Minneapolis police chief calls out city's 'bizarre' politics as detached from 'reality' after George Floyd
Top cop Brian O'Hara said in an interview with The New York Post that "bourgeois liberal mentality" prevents facts from ...
When George Floyd was killed, policing and diversity changes came. Five years later, is that change at risk?
George Floyd's murder sparked an international protest movement for racial equity and policing changes. Five years later, what changed — and what's being undone?
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After George Floyd's murder, big banks invested millions in small, Black-owned banks
In the year after his murder, big banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo announced plans ...
Ex-Minneapolis police chief Arradondo reflects on police reform 5 years after George Floyd's death
As the Trump administration's Department of Justice now seeks to drop the consent decree made between former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Gardner's department and the Minneapolis police in the murder ...