It's been five years since that moment, and NPR's Morning Edition is in Minneapolis looking back on Floyd's life and how the country responded to his death.George Floyd's uncertain legacy is marked five years on
Two Washington Post journalists, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, set out to learn more about who George Floyd was, and after 400 interviews they tell his story in their Pulitzer Prize-winning book His Name is George Floyd. In the course of documenting Floyd's life they map his story against the backdrop of institutional racism that they say shaped his life's trajectory.
But since Trump's return to power in January –- he was serving his first term when Floyd died -– his administration has axed civil rights investigations and cracked down on diversity hiring initiatives.George Floyd’s legacy under siege as racial justice efforts lose ground, memorials removed
BLM, meanwhile, finds itself lacking the support it enjoyed when protesters sprawled across US cities during the Covid pandemic -- with many now agreeing the movement achieved little of substance.
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Some experts believe Trump's re-election was partly a backlash to BLM activism, which included protests that turned to riots in some cities and calls to defund the police.
Floyd's family members told AFP in Minneapolis on Friday that they wanted people to continue pushing for reform despite the hostile political climate.
"We don't need an executive order to tell us that Black lives matter," said his aunt Angela Harrelson, who wore a dark T-shirt depicting Floyd's face.
While some work to preserve memories of the movement, others have found symbolic and substantive ways to try and erase it.Five years later: How the murder of George Floyd changed America
One by one, memorials to Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement have come down in recent years, including in Washington; Des Moines; Indianapolis; Salt Lake City; Santa Barbara, California; and Asheville, North Carolina.
A push jump-started by Floyd's death to remove or rename Confederate memorials has slowed to a trickle. In early 2024, only two had been removed, compared to nearly 170 in 2020, according to a recent report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. More than 2,000 Confederate symbols remain, and some have recently been restored, including the Confederate names of two Virginia schools that were changed during the racial reckoning of 2020.
It's been five years since that moment, and NPR's Morning Edition is in Minneapolis looking back on Floyd's life and how the country responded to his death.George Floyd's uncertain legacy is marked five years on
Two Washington Post journalists, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, set out to learn more about who George Floyd was, and after 400 interviews they tell his story in their Pulitzer Prize-winning book His Name is George Floyd. In the course of documenting Floyd's life they map his story against the backdrop of institutional racism that they say shaped his life's trajectory.
But since Trump's return to power in January –- he was serving his first term when Floyd died -– his administration has axed civil rights investigations and cracked down on diversity hiring initiatives.George Floyd’s legacy under siege as racial justice efforts lose ground, memorials removed
BLM, meanwhile, finds itself lacking the support it enjoyed when protesters sprawled across US cities during the Covid pandemic -- with many now agreeing the movement achieved little of substance.
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Some experts believe Trump's re-election was partly a backlash to BLM activism, which included protests that turned to riots in some cities and calls to defund the police.
Floyd's family members told AFP in Minneapolis on Friday that they wanted people to continue pushing for reform despite the hostile political climate.
"We don't need an executive order to tell us that Black lives matter," said his aunt Angela Harrelson, who wore a dark T-shirt depicting Floyd's face.
While some work to preserve memories of the movement, others have found symbolic and substantive ways to try and erase it.Five years later: How the murder of George Floyd changed America
One by one, memorials to Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement have come down in recent years, including in Washington; Des Moines; Indianapolis; Salt Lake City; Santa Barbara, California; and Asheville, North Carolina.
A push jump-started by Floyd's death to remove or rename Confederate memorials has slowed to a trickle. In early 2024, only two had been removed, compared to nearly 170 in 2020, according to a recent report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. More than 2,000 Confederate symbols remain, and some have recently been restored, including the Confederate names of two Virginia schools that were changed during the racial reckoning of 2020.
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