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26 Jun 2020, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  The conversations occurred in early June, soon after protests started in Wilmington related to the killing of George Floyd. [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 9:56 pm
Such was the case on a private flight in 2006, from New York to Los Angeles, involving "Floyd", a guard dog belonging to Jennifer Lopez and a female flight attendant. [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 3:19 pm by Alicia Maule
The Memorial Day killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin, who has been the subject of at least 17 misconduct complaints over his career — yet only ever received two written reprimands — has reignited calls for police discipline and accountability throughout the U.S. [read post]
28 Sep 2017, 8:52 am by David Aronberg
In the same week that Floyd Mayweather reclaimed his title as a national champion, drivers in the Sunshine State reclaimed a title of their own: the worst drivers in the country. [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 5:27 pm
The prosecutor on the case, Floyd Andrews, is now a  criminal defense attorney. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 7:00 am by Gene Takagi
Equity and Justice: The Meaning of African American Studies (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker) He said, “The events surrounding George Floyd and the increased awareness and attention paid towards issues of inequity and unfairness and brutality directed towards African Americans caused me to wonder, ‘Would colleges be more receptive to an AP course in this discipline than they were 10 years ago? [read post]
7 Jun 2020, 6:36 am by David Oxenford
As protests and civil unrest over George Floyd’s killing roiled cities across the country, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai commended local broadcasters for their coverage of the events and their willingness to put themselves at personal risk to share these stories with America (News Release). [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 3:03 am by Lynn Jokela
Following the killing of George Floyd, investors are increasingly calling for change and looking for company and board diversity data. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 9:14 am by Sami Z Azhari
In Chicago, specifically, widespread protests have sprung up regularly since George Floyd died at the hands of police officers in Minnesota. [read post]
30 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by John Jenkins
We’ve blogged about rapper Ghostface Killah’s unsuccessful efforts to launch his own cryptocurrency, and we also mentioned how boxer Floyd Mayweather & music impresario DJ Khaleed managed to get themselves sideways with the SEC due to their involvement in touting some ICOs on social media. [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 6:10 am by Irene
Although the majority of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees come from “underrepresented racial and ethnic groups,” the agency is hiring a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the recommendation of a special Inclusion Action Committee (IAC) created after George Floyd’s death. [read post]
DEI efforts proliferated across the US after the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in May 2020 spurred a national reckoning over the lasting impacts of racial justice. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 3:05 pm
The Boardman Art Theater in downtown Champaign is showing Public Enemies, a movie (loosely) based on Vanity Fair's Bryan Burrough's book of the same title about 1930s criminals such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, the Barker Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson. [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 3:03 am by Lynn Jokela
Following the killing of George Floyd, attention has increased on diversity and inclusion, among other matters. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 8:39 am by Todd Lebowitz
  If you listen to the 1969 Pink Floyd track, “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict,” you pretty much know what you are going to get. [read post]
31 May 2022, 9:06 am by Dani Selby
The Innocence Project commends President Biden for taking urgently needed action on police reform on the second-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. [read post]
Even dating back to the days of “Pretty Boy Floyd” and “Baby Face Nelson,” bank robberies generally involved men who organized a hostile takeover of the entire bank, holding up the entire business at gunpoint, forcing managers to open the vaults, taking hostages and engaging in gun battles with police. [read post]