Darnella Frazier, the young lady who recorded George Floyd’s killing last year, reflected in a moving statement on what life has been like in the past 365 days. “A year ago, today I witnessed a murder,” the 18-year-old said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “The victim’s name was George Floyd. Although this wasn’t the […]
At least one person was shot during a tribute ceremony on the anniversary of George Floyd’s death on Tuesday, just feet away from the spot he was killed in 2020 by Minneapolis police. The Minneapolis Police Department said they received reports of shots being fired near a street in a part of the city known […]
An Colorado high school has launched an investigation after a photo showing a group of student reenacting the death of George Floyd surfaced online. The photo surfaced on Snapchat, shows three students reenacting the death on school property, while the student posing as Floyd was wearing black face according to 9News. “Yesterday, we were made aware […]
(BPRW) ‘OWN AND PROCTER & GAMBLE PRESENT: WIDEN THE SCREEN – A FULLER VIEW OF BLACK LIFE’ A SPECIAL GEORGE FLOYD ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMMING EVENT FEATURING OPRAH WINFREY Oprah Winfrey Leads Conversations On The Vastness of Black Identity And Experience (Black PR Wire) LOS ANGELES – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today a special one-hour programming […]
The man was seen getting out of the vehicle, leaving the headlights on, and the driver’s side door open. He was dressed in a dark-colored T-shirt and light blue jeans, he walked up to the barricades and immediately started knocking things down. He continued to destroy the before walking back to his black truck to […]
(BPRW) The George Floyd Memorial Center Launches the 5/25 Day of Enlightenment (D.O.E.) The George Floyd Memorial Center announces a new initiative to honor the legacy and impact of George Floyd’s life and death with a Day of Enlightenment (D.O.E.) to be celebrated annually on May 25, the day of George Floyd’s public, tragic and […]
A short video clip has sparked outrage after students at an Arizona high school were recorded reenacting George Floyd‘s murder. Floyd was killed last May after then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nearly 10 minutes as he laid face down with his hands cuffed behind his back. The Arizona Republic reported the […]
A federal grand jury has indicted Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s death. According to the indictments, announced on Friday, the four men are accused of violating Floyd’s constitutional rights as he was restrained face-down on the pavement and gasping for air in Minnesota […]
The defense attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd has requested a new trial, saying the court abused its discretion on several points and that the verdict should be impeached because of jury misconduct, according to a court document filed Tuesday. Derek Chauvin, who is white, was convicted last month of second-degree unintentional murder, […]
A New Jersey teacher has been removed from teaching his virtual class after going off on a profanity-laced rant against his students about race, Black Lives Matter and George Floyd. Dickinson High School teacher Howard Zlotkin was teaching a lesson about climate change before it turned into race according to NBC New York. Zlotkin went off […]