The McKnight Foundation is giving $1 million in surprise grants to 10 organizations in honor of George Floyd one year after his murder. The Minneapolis foundation, which announced the unsolicited grants Tuesday, will give $100,000 each to the Minnesota groups working to make the state more inclusive and address systemic justice. Each organization "connects to our vision of a more equitable .
Tens of thousands of protesters gather in cities across the US to mark the one-year anniversary of George Floyd s death: NYPD patrol car mows down cyclist and Proud Boys stage a counter demo in Miami
Marches and rallies were held in more than a dozen cities in the United States on the first anniversary of George Floyd s death
In New York, Atlanta, Washington DC and Minneapolis, crowds gathered to mark the anniversary of the day Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin
In Miami, members of the far-right Proud Boys showed up to counter-protest people who d gathered at the Torch of Friendship
OPINION / VIEWPOINT
By Xin Ping Published: May 26, 2021 08:06 PM
A visitor attends the free public art exhibit Justice for George: Messages from the People at Phelps Field Park near George Floyd Memorial Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the US. Photo: AFPMay 25 marks the first anniversary of George Floyd s murder. A long and painful year passed, yet what has and has not changed in the US?
The unprecedented mass protests Black Lives Matter last year have driven the Biden administration to pledge to overhaul American policing laws. To make a gesture, President Biden called on the Congress to pass a major police reform bill ahead of this year s anniversary. While congressional negotiations are still in the process and far from yielding any concrete results, the Floyd tragedy keeps repeating itself across the nation. Lindani Myeni s death last month, for instance, has triggered the outrage of another country.