Poets and musicians will gather Sunday at the Hyannis Village Green for “A-Way with Words: Spoken Word and Poetry in Solidarity,” a special event in remembrance of George Floyd one year after his murder.
“As a person of color, I was trying to think of a way to get our feelings out there, but also how can we heal, and for me that always comes back to creativity. It comes back to art, it comes back to self-expression,” says event organizer Rachael Devaney. “That’s why I thought this would be the perfect way to remember George Floyd.”
Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died May 25, 2020 after Minneapolis police stopped him on suspicion of passing counterfeit money. Former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted last month of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after kneeling on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, even though Floyd told him “I can’t breathe” at least 27 times, based on a videotape of the inci
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Conservative pundit and author Ann Coulter slammed President Donald Trump for hesitating to order American flags to be flown at half-staff on federal property to mourn US Capitol Police Officers Brian D. Sicknick following the siege on January 6, especially since it was reported that Sicknick was a big supporter of the POTUS.
The proclamation by Trump to lower the flags at the White House and other federal buildings came days after flags at the Capitol had already been lowered. After Sicknick died Thursday from injuries he sustained during the Capitol riots, Trump had faced criticism from both sides of the political spectrum for not ordering flags to fly at half-staff. It was only after Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood died by suicide on Sunday that the White House released the proclamation. Flags will be flown at half-staff at the White House and all public grounds and U.S. military facilities around the world, a