One year after George Floyd's Murder, Nation Reflects on Racism's Deep Wounds

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🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Following the murder of her father George Floyd at the hands of police, Floyd's youngest daughter, Gianna, then six, observed, "My daddy changed the world." On this one-year anniversary of Floyd's death, we hear reflections from historian Elizabeth Hinton, whose new book "America on Fire" traces the brutal police practices that engendered Black community protests from the 1960s to the present. We also talk to writer Zak Cheney-Rice, who observes that as major police reforms stall, the nation is "reckoning with a reckoning." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.0	After the police murder of her father, George Floyd, Floyd's daughter Gianna, then six, observed,
1:22.7	My Daddy, changed the world.
1:28.0	Indeed, protests occurred in all 50 states demanding racial justice and an end to police violence that inspired activists worldwide.
1:30.5	They gave rise to federal police reform bills and commitments from cities to cut and reallocate
1:34.6	police budgets.
1:36.2	As we mark one year since Floyd's murder, we'll hear reflections from writer Zach Cheney
1:40.3	Rice on why these efforts have stalled and from historian Elizabeth Hinton, who writes
1:45.2	last summer's protests are the latest manifestation of the unresolved inequality, injustice,
1:50.2	and policing that engendered the protests of the 1960s. Join us.
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