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News in Conservation, June-July 2025, Issue 108, p. 4-5 In the heart of Minneapolis, Minesota (US), a quiet but powerful movement is unfolding. Rise & Remember, a nonprofit led by Jeanelle Austin, is working tirelessly to preserve thousands of offerings left at George Floyd Square, turning spontaneous tributes into a living archive of protest, memory, and community resilience through the George Floyd Global Memorial.

The intersection where a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd has an uncertain future. The memorial site has become a meeting place for activists, but some businesses say the corner is trapped in time.

May 25, 2025, marks the fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. In this video message to the church honoring Floyd, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton calls our attention to how this “horrific act revealed the deadly reality of racism in the United States for many across the world.”

Events across the Twin Cities honor the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death with a candlelight vigil and three-day festival at George Floyd Square, five days of arts programming in Minneapolis, and a new exhibit in St. Paul celebrating protest art

Activists and community leaders in Minneapolis held events over the weekend to mark five years since George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer.

The Rise and Remember event activities focus on education, empowerment, healing, celebration, and a collective pursuit for racial justice and equity with live music, market, food trucks, and more.

Five years ago, the murder of George Floyd on a Minneapolis street corner changed the world. But in the place where his final breath became a global outcry, a community has continued to rise.

CNN’s Sara Sidner reports from the annual Rise & Remember Festival, which is held in remembrance of George Floyd, whose death five years ago at the hands of a White police officer in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests and calls for police reform.

Three nonprofits are vying for city approval to control the activist hub at 38th and Chicago while officials study traffic options.

“There were people whispering in my ear, ‘We have to tell our own story, we have to keep this,’ and so that’s what we started doing as neighbors is preserving the story,” said Jeanelle Austin, executive director of Rise & Remember.

On Friday, Angela Harrelson peered through her car’s windshield and grinned at the scene around George Floyd Square in Minneapolis nearly three years after the police murder of her nephew George Floyd.

Two years after George Floyd’s murder, the street art created during that summer’s uprising — and the hope it inspired — is fading away.

Thousands have left remembrances at the Minneapolis street where George Floyd was killed. Now residents and volunteer art conservators are working to preserve them for a potential permanent memorial.