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Migizi executive director Kelly Drummer and her family coped with loss while processing the reasons it happened.

It's been one year since Minneapolis' Third Precinct building was set on fire by rioters following the death of George Floyd.

Notes of a (Minneapolis) native son.

One year after George Floyd's murder, communities are still rebuilding.

A City’s Inexorable Decline Over the past year, Minneapolis has joined Chicago, Portland, Baltimore, Seattle, Detroit and St. Louis as cities whose futures look bleak on account of out-of-control crime. Scott wrote this afternoon about the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s tentative and belated acknowledgement that the city’s residents need to support their police department rather than interfering with attempted arrests. That would be a start, I guess. But Minneapolis’s decline is precipitous...

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “spark.”

In the shadow of George Floyd Square, the Minnesota Lynx remain steadfast in the fight for racial justice From Philando Castile to George Floyd and Daunte Wright, Sylvia Fowles and the Minnesota Lynx have been at the physical epicenter of Americas fight for racial justice.  Jordan Johnson/NBA/Getty Images WITH A WIDE smile and a clap of her hands, Sylvia Fowles brings her Minnesota Lynx teammates together in a dark tunnel that leads to their home court at Target Center. "Take care of each othe...

A year ago, all of us were transfixed by the video footage of the white cop with his knee on the black guy’s neck for that interminable length of time. Then we waited for the riots. We knew they were coming. They came, all right, and they spread across the country, and they re-erupted throughout the year with nearly every perceived police transgression against a black male. The agenda-driven Leftmedia insisted that the riots were in fact “mostly peaceful protests,” which, of cour...

Douglas Andrews A year ago, all Americans were transfixed by the video footage of the white cop with his knee on the black guy’s neck for that interminable length of time. And we waited for the riots. They came, and they spread across the country, and they re-erupted with every perceived police transgression in every urban area. The agenda-driven media told us they were “mostly peaceful protests,” which, of course, was a demonstrable and despicable lie. But a year later, after an...

It is hard to move on when it feels like it is not over.