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One initiative distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene washed away computers and phones. And there are efforts in Oregon and rural Alabama teach digital skills to older people, including… Source: LacrosseTribune.com

Religious services, concerts and vigils are scheduled to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer in the cities where Floyd grew up and where he died. Events at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis include concerts… Source: LacrosseTribune.com

In the Houston housing project where he grew up, George Floyd was respected as a man who spoke from hard, but hardly extraordinary, experience. He had nothing remotely like the stature he has gained in death, embraced as a universal… Source: LacrosseTribune.com

As cellphone video documenting the last breaths of George Floyd spread across the internet, so did the collective outrage. Source: LacrosseTribune.com

Former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo says he wishes he had moved faster to change the culture of his department before the murder of George Floyd, which happened five years ago Sunday. Arradondo, the city’s first Black police chief, told… Source: LacrosseTribune.com