What’s been happening there marks the beginning of a new type of racial reckoning. Signs memorializing Alex Pretti and Renee Good are seen in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on February 4, 2026. “It may look like food, but the life-giving nutrients are long gone.”There were, of course, other reasons for the failures of the 2020 protests. But the Minnesota protests, where the civic unity is as palpable as the biting cold, stand on more solid ground. In Springfield, Ohio, a network of Black, White and Latino churches called G92 has formed to protect the Haitian community.

Source: Egypt Independent February 16, 2026 14:22 UTC