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How A Minnesota Paper Is Covering The Chauvin Trial From The Black Perspective

The Spokesman-Recorder was founded on the mission of telling stories from the Black perspective in Minnesota. Now its small team of journalists have taken on covering the Derek Chauvin trial.
A woman stands with her baby while viewing memorials dedicated to George Floyd in front of the entrance of Cup Foods, the site where George Floyd died.

Just half a mile from the Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd died last summer, a small team of journalists covered the story as it evolved from neighborhood news to a global movement.

Now, the journalists of the are covering the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer who is a

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