Copy shortlink: Storied 38th Street and Chicago Avenue rests in the heart of south Minneapolis, where a middle-class Black community planted businesses, community centers, and one of the city’s oldest newspapers in the 1930s, and where resident families, once ravaged by the crack epidemic and war on drugs, continue to fight against the forces of gentrification and displacement. On May 25, 2020, George Perry Floyd Jr. was murdered by the Minneapolis police. His death in the street, beneath an officer’s knee, was recorded by agitated bystanders including local teen Darnella Frazier, whose cellphone video swept the world. A makeshift George Floyd Av. street sign was posted near the George Floyd memorial at 38th and Chicago Ave. S. in Minneapolis on Saturday, June 13, 2020.