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URL copied to clipboard When I was a child, I used to visit my Viennese grandmother in the rent-controlled apartment on New York’s Upper West Side that she had been living in for nearly 50 years. I remember the intoxicating smells of sizzling schnitzel and her warm greeting in a thick Austrian accent. My grandmother escaped the Nazi takeover of Vienna in 1938 underneath a sack of potatoes in the back of a truck. She managed to reach the UK, and later New York, where she joined a community...

Minnesota Democrats from the federal, state and local level have released statements reflecting on the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. GOV. TIM WALZ "Today, we honor and remember George Floyd. In the days following his murder, Minnesotans raised their voices and called for real, meaningful change to prevent this from ever happening again. Those calls for action spread across the world as his memory sparked a...

A local prosecutor in Minnesota who was handling the case of the former Brooklyn Center police officer, Kim Potter, charged in the deadly shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, has resigned, citing “vitriol” and “partisan politics” that have made his "job difficult to pursue justice."

It has been a year since we watched George Floyd, a Black man, die beneath the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer. The cell phone footage of his brutal death sparked global protests that raged through the summer, igniting a long overdue conversation about racism in America. For the last 12 months, young people have helped propel this country’s multifaceted racial reckoning. They have marched through the streets, supported equity in pandemic-era classrooms, kneeled on ball fields, ...

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A George Floyd memorial is located outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis. LEILA NAVIDI/MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE/TNS MINNEAPOLIS – The families came from all over the country to honor George Floyd. They all had one tragic thing in common: Their loved ones names became synonymous with a movement only because of their deaths. It is a fraternity, they said, of which no one wants to be a part. On the dais at the downtown Minneapolis hotel Monday was the mother ...

A look at efforts in Minneapolis, Minnesota and at the national level.

Hartford Jun 11, 2020 With the Hartford City Council’s approval to reallocate money, a portion of the Hartford Police Department budget will now be used elsewhere. According to the mayor’s office, the passed budget includes 6 percent of reductions from and reallocation within the police department budget compared with last year. That amounts to $1.6 million cut and an additional $1 million reallocated within... Hartford Jun 11, 2020

ANGELA WEISSGetty Images One year ago today, police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd on the streets of Minneapolis, kneeling on Floyds neck as he called out, “I cant breathe.” A video of the incident made its way around the globe, prompting months-long protests and a national conversation about race and policing in America. What is justice for George Floyd? We already know what it’s not: It’s not nine minutes and 29 seconds of begging for his life with a knee on his neck. I...

Hopeful yet still afraid to hope: The legacy of George Floyd To be Black in America means that justice is rarely, if ever, served.  By Rachel Hardeman Text size Copy shortlink: In the wake of George Floyds murder, uprisings ignited in cities throughout the United States and the world. Despite potential risks of exposure to COVID-19, demonstrators laid bare the deep pain that persists for Black people fighting to live under the crushing weigh...