Author: Staff

The cellphone footage from Minneapolis, showing a police officer’s knee pressed into George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, circulated within hours. By the evening of May 25, 2020, the video had become a visceral symbol of racial injustice, provoking immediate outrage across the country. Milwaukee, a city with its own long history of police violence and racial segregation, erupted in protest just as the nation did. Within the first week, peaceful demonstrations took hold in downtown Milwaukee, as tensions grew between police and protesters. Crowds gathered near Red Arrow Park and marched through the Third Ward,...

When George Floyd was murdered beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer on May 25, 2020, the nation erupted in a wave of protests not seen in a generation. What could have been a reckoning, a moment for political unity and moral clarity, was instead hijacked, distorted, and vilified by then-President Donald Trump and his radical right-wing political base, known as MAGA (Make America Great Again). Rather than address the systemic injustice that the protests sought to confront, Trump turned the nation’s pain into a political weapon, casting the demonstrators not as citizens demanding justice, but as enemies...

Five years after the killing of George Floyd ignited a nationwide reckoning on race, the civil rights landscape in America has shifted not toward justice, but toward retraction. What began in 2020 as a global cry for systemic reform has, by 2025, become a cautionary tale of how White backlash and authoritarian politics have dismantled hard-fought gains, drawing a chilling parallel to the racial backlash that followed the civil rights victories of the 1960s. Floyd’s death beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer sparked a movement of historic scale. Millions marched across cities and small towns alike, demanding...