May 25, 2021 marks one year since the brutal murder of George Floyd in the city of Minneapolis, which sparked a massive movement demanding justice and structural change. In the past year, there have been a few advances made due to the sheer persistence and determination of people’s movements even as the political establishment has tried its best to maintain status quo. Eugene Puryear of Breakthrough News joins us to talk about what has changed and what has remained the same.
A year after George Floyd’s murder, radical movements battle elite pushback
Eugene Puryear speaks to Peoples Dispatch about the state of the anti-racist movement one year since the killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis