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For the past several nights, Ebonie McMillan and her children have watched as protests over the death of Daunte Wright turned violent outside their home in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
The New York Times was in Minneapolis the moment the city - and the world - learned that a jury had convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of murder in the death of George Floyd.
George Floyd Square began as a rallying point in the fight for racial justice. However, in the last year, the intersection has transformed into a contested space and autonomous zone that some say is harboring violence and criminal activity like “a festering wound.”
In the days after the election, Times reporters went to four swing state counties with some of the tightest vote margins to see how people were feeling. The answer? Still pretty divided.
Protesters and law enforcement officers clashed in Kenosha, Wis., over the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer.
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has prompted the biggest protests about race and police brutality in America for 50 years.
Could this be a moment that changes race relations in America for good?
“If we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
We followed Minnesota organizer John Thompson whose run for office has taken on new urgency since George Floyd’s death.
The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police set off days of protests in Minneapolis. Demonstrators challenged a curfew on Saturday and took to the streets for the fifth day in a row.
The New York Times captured the scene outside the Third Precinct in Minneapolis as peaceful demonstrations over the death of George Floyd turned violent, and a group of protesters set the building on fire.
George Floyd, a Black man, died in May 2020 after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by Minneapolis police officers in an episode that was captured on video, touching off nationwide protests.
A Ugandan woman sings of her tragic past and new hope for the future.
For children with disabilities, it’s nearly impossible to navigate the slippery, muddy roads of Kibera.
A Kenyan father has made it his mission to drive these kids to school, who can’t get there otherwise.
In Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya, many of the 185,000 refugees are unable to work or access traditional banking services because of their displacement making mobile money transfers - sent by family or friends abroad - their only economic lifeline.
However, credible information or education about the ever-evolving digital money ecosystem remains limited.
But experts at Samuel Hall and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) aim to change that.
In Uganda, being gay is illegal.
In Uganda, members of the gay and transgender community face discrimination, violence, arbitrary arrests and forced evictions simply because of who they love.
But in Uganda, there is hope.