Minneapolis on trial: how the year of George Floyd changed me and my city

A year to the day after the pandemic sent me back home from university, George Floyd's killer goes on trial. It has been 12 months of upheaval, unrest and inspiration

At 9.52pm on 8 March 2020, my university sent out an email telling students that we would start our spring break a week early because of a potential Covid-19 case on campus.

What they couldn't tell us right then is that over the course of the two weeks, I'd fly home to Minnesota, fly back to campus in New York to move out and fly back home to finish classes in my family home.