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A year ago today, George Floyd was murdered, precisely 263 steps from Marsha Howard's house.

Marsha is a high school English teacher, or at least she was. Now she's something else,

an activist, a caretaker. Even she has trouble coming up with the right word.

If George Floyd Square is kind of like a village, can you describe your role in the village?

Like, are you the mayor? I don't run nothing but my mouth.

I guess I would say, I don't know if that's entirely true because when I look at, for instance,

your social media, your handle is Marsha Howard 38th Street. Clearly the place is deeply embedded

inside of you. I gotta tell you, this is my neighborhood. This is my neighborhood. My own

student is the one who filmed the death of George Floyd. I haven't taught a day since.

Instead of reporting to a classroom, Marsha's been reporting to George Floyd Square.

She's part of a volunteer security team that's organized itself at the intersection of 38th

and Chicago, where a steel fist sculpture has sprouted up in the middle of the road, right in

front of cup foods, and traffic is closed off for a block in any direction. Marsha's got her own

uniform at this point. You can see it in her TikTok videos. She wears a yellow beanie.

It's a yellow headband in the warmer months. She's got trademark glasses. And then there's the

GoPro camera strapped to her chest. I started wearing a camera probably May 29th or May 30th.

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