🌼 May roundup

📰 Retrospectives on the five years since the murder of George Floyd

Last week's five-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd was marked by quite a bit of ambitious journalism chronicling the event and its aftermath. While the story is much larger than the neighborhood, a share of the pieces include a substantial focus on the area, including:

• "This is an uprising" (Star Tribune): A lengthy oral history of the six days following George Floyd's killing
• "I knew George Floyd and Derek Chauvin" (Star Tribune): Odd Fellows Building owner Maya Santamaria recounts having employed both George Floyd and Derek Chauvin as security guards at her nightclub on 27th and Lake
• What happened to protest art after George Floyd was killed? (Star Tribune): A look at two organizations (Memorialize the Movement and Save the Boards), both in Longfellow, that have collected, stored, and displayed the plywood murals and other temporary protest art that proliferated during the period
• Memorialize the Movement finds ‘radical joy’ in protest (Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder): Another look at the Memorialize the Movement project
• Remembering George Floyd (Longfellow365): Longfellow365 was a daily photography project that captured one photo a day of neighborhood life from 2014 until 2020. Though inactive, the group curated a selection of its photos from this period.
• Many Minneapolis residents near Derek Chauvin's old precinct don't trust police. Cops say they are working on it (MPR): An exploration of how relations have evolved between police and residents near the former Third Precinct building
• Red tape, rising costs slow efforts to rebuild businesses burned after Floyd’s murder (MPR): An account of the buildings that have, and haven't, rebuilt since the unrest, and the reasons why
• Longfellow Rising: 5 years after murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis neighborhood still work in progress (KARE 11): A summary of the rebuilding efforts in the downtown Longfellow area