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It was Memorial Day weekend, five years ago, when George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Bystanders recorded the nine-plus minutes that Chauvin calmly kneeled on Floyd’s neck, as the Black man pleaded for help and air. That video rocketed from phone to phone, from media to media and sparked worldwide protests against police brutality.

But for the Black community in Minneapolis, Floyd’s murder was just a chapter in a much longer story. 

Long before 2020, people had been organizing, creating and demanding change. 

Certainly, in the immediate aftermath of Floyd’s death and Chauvin’s 2021 conviction, progress was made. Businesses and institutions promised to invest in racial equity, to develop new community practices, to reckon with systems of harm.

But in the neighborhood where Floyd lived and died, has that change taken root? 

That was the question at the center of a North Star Journey Live event hosted by MPR News host Angela Davis earlier this month. On May 6, a cross section of Black community leaders came together at Pillsbury House Theatre to talk about real change, deep healing and defiant hope. The conversation was candid, often surprising and ultimately inspiring. Listen Monday at 9 a.m. 

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This weekend, as we mark five years since George Floyd’s murder, we are airing a North Star Journey Live conversation recorded in South Minneapolis earlier in the month. Angela Davis sat down with a cross section of Black community leaders to talk about Floyd’s legacy, the promises made, and the healing and restoration that still need to happen. 

Five years after George Floyd: The healing and rebuilding that still need to happen

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