From George Floyd to Iryna Zarutska: Rapper steps outside the culture wars

In a new video, Charlotte-born rapper DaBaby reenacts the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska on a train, becoming one of the ...
NPR

Who George Floyd was — and how systemic racism shaped his life

In some ways, George Floyd's story was an Everyman's story. He grew up poor, he struggled in school and eventually fell into substance abuse. Most of the people he crossed paths with remember him as ...
Complex

Lil Yachty Criticized for George Floyd Lyric on Unreleased Song: 'Put My Knee Up on Her Neck'

Lil Yachty appears to be catching some heat over a song that has yet to be released. The controversy began on Thursday (August 14) when the Georgia-born rapper appeared on Plaqueboymax’s live stream.
The New York Times

How the Right Has Reshaped the Narrative Around George Floyd

After George Floyd was killed, people from the right and left agreed that the act was unconscionable. Now, some conservatives are calling for the police officer responsible to be pardoned. By Shaila ...
The Hill

5 years after George Floyd: What we’ve learned from the ebbs and flows of progress

Five years ago, the world watched as George Floyd slowly died under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Brother Floyd was not the first Black man killed by an overzealous police ...
Dallas Morning News

Johnson: Five years after the summer of George Floyd, what have we learned?

It’s been five years since the summer of George Floyd. The murder of a Black man on the streets of Minneapolis sent shockwaves around the globe, but now it seems those waves are only ripples. As an 80 ...
MSNBC

America made a promise after George Floyd’s murder that Congress hasn’t kept

Five years ago, the world watched a video of a man, whose neck was pressed under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, begging for his life. “I can’t breathe,” George Floyd said. Over and over.