NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Hennepin County Commissioner Angela Conley about protests that erupted in Minneapolis on Tuesday in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody.
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Karen Attiah of The Washington Post and Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker about the discrimination black men face in public spaces.
Minneapolis protesters say they want justice for George Floyd, a black man who died while in the police custody. A video of his arrest has again raised public concerns about police use-of-force.
Neither Floyd's family nor Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are satisfied by the firing of four officers, after a video depicting an officer's knee on Floyd's neck inspired national outrage this week.
In Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis says four police officers involved in the death of a black man while in police custody have been terminated. The FBI is investigating the incident.
Four officers are fired after a Black man dies in Minneapolis police custody. Texas' minority neighborhoods have fewer COVID-19 testing sites. And, Twitter points users to fact checks on Trump tweet.
For this latest community poem, NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander sifted through more than 1,000 submissions reacting to the killing of Ahmaud Abrery and created a poem that speaks with one voice.
A white woman has called the cops on a black man in Central Park after he asked her to put her dog on a leash. The story went viral after he posted a video of her reaction online.