Protest and reflection: A year after the death of George Floyd


  • World
  • Tuesday, 25 May 2021

A photograph of a man reciting spoken word poetry at George Floyd Square taken by Lucas Jackson is rephotographed in the same location in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi

(Reuters) - Bettye and Robert Freeman were sitting in their Boston living room when they heard the clamor on the street outside.

After 51 years of marriage, they walked out to their stoop without saying a word. They just went.

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