Norway’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade: a discourse analysis of media coverage and implications for education by Paul Thomas, Jocelyne Von Hof

“…AbstractThis study explored the Norwegian media’s coverage (2015-2022) of the discovery of the wreck of a slave ship in 1974 and how this coverage related to contemporary antiracist issues such as Black Lives Matter, the Rhodes Must Fall movement, and the murder of George Floyd. A content analysis was applied to 16 of a total of 24 newspaper articles (online and print versions) informed by critical discourse analysis and tenets of critical race theory. …”
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“Anti-Riot” or “Anti-Protest” Legislation? Black Lives Matter, News Framing, and the Protest Paradigm by Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Douglas M. McLeod

“…The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on 25 May 2020, sparked widespread protests led by the Black Lives Matter movement throughout the summer of 2020. …”
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Attention and counter-framing in the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter by Colin Klein, Ritsaart Reimann, Ignacio Ojea Quintana, Marc Cheong, Marinus Ferreira, Mark Alfano

“…Most notably, the murder of George Floyd appears to have solidified a right-wing counter-framing of protests as arising from dangerous “terrorist” actors. …”
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Attitudes about police and race in the United States 2020–2021: Mean-level trends and associations with political attitudes, psychiatric problems, and COVID-19 outcomes by Catherine Vitro, D. Angus Clark, Carter Sherman, Mary M. Heitzeg, Brian M. Hicks

“…The murder of George Floyd and subsequent mass protest movement in the summer of 2020 brought policing, race, and police brutality to the forefront of American political discourse. …”
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Reaching and engaging people: Analyzing tweeting practices of large U.S. police departments pre- and post- the killing of George Floyd. by Beidi Dong, Xiaoyun Wu

“…It becomes particularly urgent following the murder of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020. An emerging area that holds potential in remediating police-community relations pertains to the use of social media by police. …”
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Say their names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd by Henry H. Wu, Ryan J. Gallagher, Thayer Alshaabi, Jane L. Adams, Joshua R. Minot, Michael V. Arnold, Brooke Foucault Welles, Randall Harp, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Christopher M. Danforth

“…The murder of George Floyd by police in May 2020 sparked international protests and brought unparalleled levels of attention to the Black Lives Matter movement. …”
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Say their names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd. by Henry H Wu, Ryan J Gallagher, Thayer Alshaabi, Jane L Adams, Joshua R Minot, Michael V Arnold, Brooke Foucault Welles, Randall Harp, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Christopher M Danforth

“…The murder of George Floyd by police in May 2020 sparked international protests and brought unparalleled levels of attention to the Black Lives Matter movement. …”
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Addressing Structural Racism Using a Whole-Scale Planning Process in a Single Academic Center

“…Purpose: The murder of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a national demand for cultural transformation to confront the systemic racism prevalent in the country. …”
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Attitudes about police and race in the United States 2020-2021: Mean-level trends and associations with political attitudes, psychiatric problems, and COVID-19 outcomes. by Catherine Vitro, D Angus Clark, Carter Sherman, Mary M Heitzeg, Brian M Hicks

“…The murder of George Floyd and subsequent mass protest movement in the summer of 2020 brought policing, race, and police brutality to the forefront of American political discourse. …”
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Moving Forward Together: Reflections of a National Survey of OT/OTA Students’ Perceptions of Culturally Aware Educational Content Delivery by Adair M. Sanchez, Iris W. Burns, Tina M. DeAngelis, MacIain Capron, Abigail Mills, Taylor Kligerman

“…In June of 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd and the additional atrocities against historically marginalized people and communities across the United States, the Commission on Education (COE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) sought to act within its scope. …”

What does it mean to decolonise the curriculum? by Patel, Z

“…The events of the summer of 2020, with the murder of George Floyd and the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston, reignited calls for curriculum change in the UK. …”

University Social Responsibility: Challenging Systemic Racism in the Aftermath of George Floyd’s Murder by Paulette A. Meikle, Lekeitha R. Morris

“…Some presidential letters are forthright in their denouncement of the murder of George Floyd and systemic racism, while others were, at best, vague in their approach. …”
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Experiences with developing and implementing a courageous conversations pilot classroom through synchronous meetings via zoom by Cilia E. Zayas, Tremaine B. Williams, Mathias Brochhausen

“… Abstract Background: The murder of George Floyd created national outcry that echoed down to national institutions, including universities and academic systems to take a hard look at systematic and systemic racism in higher education. …”
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Antiracism in leading public health universities, journals and funders: commitments, accountability and the decision-makers by Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Mishal Khan, Ngozi A Erondu, Lara Hollmann, Thuy Duyen Chau, Renzo R Guinto, Muneera A Rasheed, Bakht Anwar, Ezekiel Boro, Jerome Alan Mejarito

“…Introduction Two years since the murder of George Floyd, there has been unprecedented attention to racial justice by global public health organisations. …”
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America’s Racial Reckoning Within Perinatal Communication: A Rapid Review Using Sociotechnical Systems Theory to Compare Publications Before and After 2020 by Maren S.G. Henderson, Meghan M. JaKa, Jennifer M. Dinh, Barbara A. Olson-Bullis, Corinne Brown-Robinson, Thomas E. Kottke, Jeanette Y. Ziegenfuss

“…Perinatal communication is one factor driving racial disparities in maternal and infant morbidity. The murder of George Floyd in May 2020, in addition to the disproportionate impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on communities of color, was a catalyst for American society to address racial injustices with a renewed sense of urgency. …”
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Substance use workforce training needs during intersecting epidemics: an analysis of events offered by a regional training center from 2017 to 2020 by Kelli Scott, Mika D. H. Salas, Denise Bayles, Raymond Sanchez, Rosemarie A. Martin, Sara J. Becker

“…The relative proportions of events and attendance rates focused on evidence-based practice and health equity both increased over the 3-year period, with the largest increase after the onset of the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd. As events shifted to virtual, events were attended by providers with a broader range of educational backgrounds. …”
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Adopting a multi-systems approach: examining the academic belongingness of first-generation college students with multiple stigmatized identities in STEM by Angela N. Google, Angela N. Google, Grace Sekaya, Zachery McMullen, Jeremiah A. Henning

“…Infused throughout all findings are instances where student experiences were mediated through their multiple identities and were shaped by dual global pandemics of 2020, that being COVID-19 and the racial unrest resurfaced by the murder of George Floyd. Implications for this work have the potential to restructure how institutions provide support for first-generation college students given the salience of their intersecting stigmatized identities in shaping their institutional, disciplinary, and classroom belonging.…”
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Creating a sustainable action-oriented engagement infrastructure—a UMN-MIDB perspective by Anita C. Randolph, Anita C. Randolph, Alex Henry, Amy Hewitt, Amy Hewitt, Angie P. Mejia, Raj Sethuraju, Meriah DeJoseph, Melissa Koenig, Jed T. Elison, Jed T. Elison, Jed T. Elison, Damien A. Fair, Damien A. Fair, Damien A. Fair

“…Following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Minneapolis represented the epicenter of protests that would reverberate internationally and re-instantiate a reckoning of the systemic and institutional racism that plagues American society. …”
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From the national to the local: Issues of trust and a model for community-academic-engagement by Olufunmilayo Chinekezi, Lauri Andress, Etsemaye P. Agonafer, Susan Massick, Sarah Piepenbrink, Karey M. Sutton, Philip M. Alberti, Desiree de la Torre, Shannon Guillot-Wright, Marshala Lee

“…In the summer of 2020, given the series of social injustices posed by the pandemic and highly publicized incidents of police brutality, notably the murder of George Floyd, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) enlisted the help of a national collaborative, the AAMC Collaborative for Health Equity: Act, Research, Generate Evidence (CHARGE)1 to establish a three-way partnership that would gather and prioritize community perspectives and lived experiences from multiple regions across the US on the role of academic medicals centers (AMCs) in advancing health and social justice. …”
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