January 10, 2023 George Floyd's family ready to take applications for business grants George Floyd's family is beginning to take applications for business grants funded by their son's wrongful death settlement. The city of Minneapolis gave the family $27 million.
January 10, 2023 So long Fort Bragg, welcome Fort Liberty: The Pentagon's naming commission recommendations take effect The process of removing Confederate names from military bases and replacing them with new ones has started. The military's Naming Commission has announced the first 9 U.S. army bases to be renamed.
January 8, 2023 Biden's FCC nominee Gigi Sohn shared tweet calling Trump a 'raggedy white supremacist president' President Biden's nominee for the Federal Communications Commission retweeted a post in 2020 that called former President Donald Trump a "raggedy white supremacist."
January 3, 2023 MN Gov. Walz addresses state after being sworn in for second term Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz addressed the state in a post-inauguration speech Tuesday, touting education investments and a budget surplus.
December 9, 2022 George Floyd killing: Former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng sentenced to 3.5 years The former Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer seen kneeling on George Floyd while he was being restrained has been sentenced on a state manslaughter charge.
December 8, 2022 Brittney Griner is coming home. Will she stand for the anthem now that she's back in the USA? President Biden announced Thursday that WNBA star Brittney Griner had been released in a prisoner swap with Russia. Now that she has been freed, will Griner stand for the anthem?
December 1, 2022 Minneapolis reaches $600,000 settlement with 12 protestors who were injured at the George Floyd protests Minneapolis, Minnesota, has reached a 600,000 settlement with 12 people that were injured in the George Floyd protests in 2020. The agreement also included police reform measures.
November 30, 2022 Portland settles lawsuit over police use of force during Floyd protests: Win for 'antifascist activists' Portland settled a lawsuit with five protesters and activist group Don't Shoot Portland over the police bureau's use of force during the George Floyd protests in 2020.
November 14, 2022 Biden official mocks 'oppression' voiced by 'White protesters' against lockdowns, shares defense of BLM riots The DOE official said, 'That feeling of ‘oppression’ these white protesters have voiced is [because of]... their perceived loss of power & privilege'
November 10, 2022 Minnesota county at center of George Floyd protests elects first ever Black sheriff, new top prosecutor Minnesota's Hennepin County, which saw Minneapolis-area racial justice protests since the killing of George Floyd, elected Mary Moriarty as top prosecutor and Dawanna Witt as sheriff.
