The Christian Science Monitor Daily for April 22, 2021
My hometown of Minneapolis erupted last May over a video that showed Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck until the life drained out of him. Within days, I headed there and met dozens of residents united in their fury and anguish. Nearly a year later, after the announcement of Mr. Chauvin’s conviction on murder and manslaughter charges, once-moribund streets bloomed with displays of euphoria and relief. People hugged and cried, laughed and danced, and for a few hours at least, Minneapolis could exhale. “I’m feeling super excited,” Trahern Crews, the lead organizer of Blac...
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