Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd which sparked a racial reckoning and had so many across the country protesting for social justice.
Floyd was killed when former Minneapolis, MN, police officer Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s neck reportedly for nine minutes and 29 seconds. The national outcry, along with the deaths of many other African-Americans at the hands of white police officers, touched off a wave of protests across the country.
Partly because of Floyd’s murder, the National Basketball Coaches Association – in conjunction with the Obama Foundation and the Equal Justice Initiative – formed the Coaches For Racial Justice initiative.