A white police officer murdered unarmed George Floyd in Minneapolis four years ago tomorrow, May 25, 2020. The murder of Mr. Floyd broadened the Movement for Black Lives to a global reckoning, another cycle of history repeating itself over more than 400 years. In February 1965, 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson was part of a protestContinueContinue reading “George Floyd was murdered four years ago”
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We mourn Tyre Nichols and the cycle of brutality against Black people
The funeral for Tyre Nichols was held today at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. The Rev. Al Sharpton eulogized Mr. Nichols at the memorial, which was also attended by Vice President Kamala Harris, Breonna Taylor’s mother Tamika Palmer, and George Floyd’s brother Philonise Floyd.
Our Debt to George Floyd
We owe it to George Floyd and the countless others we’ve lost to press on in the fight for a system and future that will bring honor to their memory.