Study: 5 years after George Floyd‘s murder, optimism for change has dwindled
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Immediately after the murder of George Floyd, there were more people than ever drawing attention to issues of racial inequality and police treatment of Black people. A new Pew Research Center study finds that in the years since, Americans are skeptical that 2020 actually led to any significant change.
Two people joined Minnesota Now to dig into the data. Kiana Cox is an author of the study and a senior researcher on the race and ethnicity team at the Pew Research Center and Yohuru Williams, founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas.
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