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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 D...

Share and speak up for justice, law & order... MINNEAPOLIS — Black-owned businesses surrounding the area where George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis last year say they are in desperate need of help from police. Black merchants operating on the corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, known as George Floyd Square, are struggling to stay open due to rampant crime and say police have blocked off the intersection, creating a dangerous autonomous zone, according to the New York Post. “The city left me in danger,” the owner of Smoke in the Pit said Thursday, two days after Derek Chauvin was...

Church at 38th and Chicago reaches out to gang members nearby Worldwide Outreach for Christ has countered rising and ebbing gang influence at 38th and Chicago for nearly 40 years.  April 9, 2021 — 1:24pm Text size Copy shortlink: Halfway through Pastor Curtis Farrar's Sunday service in the parking lot of his church at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, he quit talking to the congregation and spoke directly to the men who stand at the intersection's northeast corner day after day. "Young man across the street, I told the Lord I will ...

Relatives, friends of man gunned down at George Floyd Square grieve his loss The suspected gunman has since been arrested and charged with second-degree murder.  April 1, 2021 — 9:30am Text size Copy shortlink: Imez Wright, the man killed last month while working security at the now infamous South Side Minneapolis corner store whose aisles he roamed as a child, was gunned down while serving as a positive fixture at George Floyd Square, his family said, mentoring Black youth and training to be a mental heal...

Minneapolis looks to offer forgivable loans to Floyd Square businesses Susan Du, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/Jerry Holt • Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS Just Turkey restaurant’s Sam Willis Jr. and other business owners in the square met with city officials about cash aid. Minneapolis businesses struggling to survive inside the area known as George Floyd Square could soon get monetary help from the city. The Business, Inspections, Housing and Zoning Committee has unanimously approved $50,000 interest-free, forgivable loans for small businesses and nonprofits be...