In the days following George Floyd’s May 25 death in the custody and under the knee of Minneapolis police, protests and demonstrations have erupted across the country and reignited a national conversation about race and the systematic oppression of black people in the United States.
Those protests and demonstrations have included Nebraska cities such as Lincoln and Omaha and spread even to small towns such as Harvard.
This weekend, a pair of former Nebraska football players, Michael Rose-Ivey and Damon Benning, agreed to an extended conversation with the Journal Star for what essentially amounted to an open forum on the recent events and where the movement goes from here.