{"id":150990,"date":"2025-05-25T22:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T22:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/five-years-since-george-floyd-and-zelenskyy-criticizes-the-silence-of-america-weekend-rundown-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T22:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T22:46:54","slug":"five-years-since-george-floyd-and-zelenskyy-criticizes-the-silence-of-america-weekend-rundown-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/five-years-since-george-floyd-and-zelenskyy-criticizes-the-silence-of-america-weekend-rundown-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years since George Floyd and Zelenskyy criticizes the 'silence of America': Weekend Rundown – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekend Rundown: Here\u2019s the biggest news you missed this weekend<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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For 9 minutes and 29 seconds on May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee and the weight of his body against George Floyd\u2019s neck, killing him as people watched.
The murder prompted vows to deal with America\u2019s deep-seated racial injustices. Five years later, many lawmakers, companies and institutions have rowed back on those commitments, and in a previously nondescript area of Minneapolis, hardly anyone can agree<\/strong><\/a> on whether things have changed for the better.
\u201cThat\u2019s a challenging question,\u201d said Andrea Jenkins, the City Council member for Ward 8, where the tragedy occurred. \u201cThere have been a number of changes, and yet it feels like things are very much the same.\u201d
Samar Moseley, who drives a city bus in Minneapolis, said the \u201cwhole city is still suffering from PTSD after George Floyd.\u201d Relations with the police are \u201ceasing up some, but there\u2019s still tension,\u201d he added.
Charles Adams, a North Minneapolis police inspector who has been in law enforcement in the area for 40 years, said the incident \u201cput us back to the 1960s.\u201d
Adams said that he was \u201csurprised\u201d by the number of Black recruits who have joined the force since then but that \u201cthe good news is that they say they want to be a part of the change.\u201d
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized the United States <\/strong><\/a>and the international community for remaining silent after Russia unleashed what Ukrainian officials described as the largest aerial assault on the country since the war began.
Russian forces launched a massive overnight barrage Saturday night as 367 drones and missiles targeted more than 30 cities and villages across Ukraine, including the capital, Kyiv.
\u201cThe silence of America, the silence of others in the world only encourages Putin,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. \u201cEvery such terrorist Russian strike is reason enough for new sanctions against Russia.\u201d
The attack came shortly after a prisoner exchange in which each side released hundreds of detainees. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would give Ukraine a draft document outlining its conditions for a \u201csustainable, long-term, comprehensive\u201d peace agreement once the prisoner exchange had finished.
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy accused Congress of failing<\/strong><\/a> \u201cin its responsibility to protect our kids\u201d from the harms of social media, calling for legislation to force social media apps to include warning labels about their harms to children.
Murthy told moderator Kristen Welker on NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d that the current approach to social media is \u201cthe equivalent of putting our kids in cars with no seat belts, with no air bags, and having them drive on roads with no speed limits and no traffic lights. And that is just morally unacceptable.\u201d
Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., who is now a mental health advocate, told Welker he believes the United States \u201cis falling down on its own responsibility as stewards to our children\u2019s future\u201d because of lack of action on the issue.
A new biography sheds light on Eleanor Roosevelt\u2019s 30-year relationship <\/strong><\/a>with trailblazing journalist Lorena Hickok after decades of speculation.
In her research for \u201cHick,\u201d author Sarah Miller read about 3,500 of the letters the two women exchanged, sometimes twice daily, from 1932 until Roosevelt died in 1962.
\u201cThey loved each other. They were physically affectionate with each other. It was a romance, for sure. Whether that included sexual intimacy is probably something we can\u2019t know,\u201d Miller said.
While there appears to be consensus among historians that Hickok was romantically interested only in women, some past accounts have portrayed her correspondence with Roosevelt as a deeply intimate friendship, rather than a romance.
\u201cWhy re-erect a symbol of something that hurt so many people?\u201d
The fire that destroyed Louisiana\u2019s Nottoway Plantation<\/strong><\/a> prompted a reckoning with the past and reignited the debate over how places born from slavery should be viewed \u2014 and how they should function today.
Nick Duffy is a platforms editor for NBC News.
Amina Kilpatrick is a weekend platforms editor for NBC News.
Adrianne Morales is a Social Platforms Editor for NBC News.
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