The race-related things that have changed since protests began around George Floyd's death

What's changed in public life and police departments since the protests began over George Floyd's death

This article outlines some changes taking place in public life and police departments. But it doesn't get into the other side of everything: the conversations, self-reflection and education happening around the country around institutional racism in the US. And though it's still unclear what changes will actually have a lasting effect, these are some of the ways we're starting to see a shift.

After the New York Times' Opinion section ran an inflammatory piece from Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton arguing that the Insurrection Act could be invoked to deploy the military across the country to assist local law enforcement, writers and editors across the paper called the op-ed"dangerous" to black employees. Opinion editor James Bennett later resigned after he admitted he hadn't read the piece before it was published.

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