George Floyd

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  10/5/2022
  

  Two Years After George Floyd: What Next?

  by Austin McCoy

  Despite the massive insurgency of 2020, activists struggle as news media amplify reactionary moral panics about history curricula and crime to justify increasing the funding and power of police departments that have seen superficial reforms at best. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/20/2021
  

  By Bearing Witness — And Hitting ‘Record’ — 17-Year-Old Darnella Frazier May Have Changed The World

  “The world needed to see what I was seeing,” she said.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/22/2021
  

  There’s Hope for Racial Justice in America. But it Comes from the People – Not the Courts

  by Simon Balto

  The killing of Ma'Khia Bryant by Columbus Police on the day of Derek Chauvin's conviction in Minneapolis is a reminder that achieving justice will be product of a long popular struggle to create solutions to social problems outside the model of policing. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/20/2021
  

  The Chauvin Verdict: ‘The Terrain Going Forward Will Not Be the Same’

  Historians Keisha N. Blain and Simon Balto, with legal scholar Rosa Brooks, are among experts commenting on the significance of the conviction of Derek Chauvin of charges including third degree murder for the death of George Floyd. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/20/2021
  

  The Derek Chauvin Verdict Won’t Stop Cops Murdering Black People. We Still Aren’t Safe

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Historical reflection shows that Derek Chauvin's killing of George Floyd was not an anomaly. His conviction won't purge policing of racial bias. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/15/2021
  

  This Much is Clear: Derek Chauvin’s Trial Won’t Change Policing in America

  by Simon Balto

  A historian of policing warns that, while many hope for a guilty verdict, that result, by identifying and punishing "bad" policing, may effectively render legitimate forms of violence and abuse that are historially part of policing in minority communities.

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• SOURCE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  3/28/2021
  

  Derek Chauvin Trial Represents a Defining Moment in America's Racial History

  University of Minnesota Professor Keith Mayes discusses the trial as part of a long and broad history of Black Americans' experiences with policing. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  12/15/2020
  

  After an Online ‘Onslaught’ over Exhibit on Racial Justice, a Florida Holocaust Museum Vows Not to Back Down

  A Florida Holocaust museum's decision to feature an exhibition of photographs taken during recent protests over police killings of Black Americans raised questions about the museum's mission and whether the Holocaust can be remembered and its victims honored by comparing the genocide of European Jews to other instances of systemic racism. 

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• 7/19/2020
  

  Thinking About Racism Beyond Statues and Symbols

  by Dolores Janiewski

  In his life and his death Floyd experienced the coercive structures that constrain, punish and eventually kill altogether too many Americans. More than Confederate statues, these need to be torn down.