♪ >> good ening. on the newshour tonight, a tenuous peace. tensions are high as both israel and hamas claim victory. covid's enormous toll, the virus urging and developing world. plus, one year later, how the emotion and traumaollowing george floyd's murder is finding its way inartistic exprsion. >> there were times i was weeping, and seeing that face that large and painting it with that black-and-white was really profound to me as i painted it. >> all of that and more on tonight pbs newshour. ♪

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sharply different versions of who one and two lost in just over a dozen years. reporting on day one of the cease-fire. >> the sounds of celebration replaced of the echoes as the fragile truce largely held for its first full day. thousands of palestinians rallied in gaza, declaring victory over israel after 11 days of fighting. >> this is a liberation, we won. i hope that god will protect the resistance. >> senior hamas official and gaza had a message. >> netanyahu and his army said they would destroy the tunnels above are resistance and i tell him that are fighters are now striving. >> also thinking iran for supplying weapons to gaza. hundreds of hamas supporters

marched in and there were also celebrations in the west bank, and at the same time benjamin netanyahu declared his own victory. >> when we embarked together on the campaign, i wanted to harm their capabilities and restore calm while establishing our deterrents,, and that is exactly what we did. > he also sounded a warning. >> if hamas thinks we will tolerate a drip of rockets, it is wrong. >> the truce was tested today when palestinians threw rocks and molotov cocktails at israeli police outside of jerusalem's compound. officers fired back with stun grenades. palestinian protesters with the west bank security. netanyahu is facing criticism from israelis who said they

ended the assault too soon. >> i'm against this firing with gaza, and continuing and tt is only a matter of time until the next operation in gaza. >> others welcome the cause, finally there is a cease-fire, hopefully there will be peace in the couny. >> let there be peace. >> tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes during the conflict and some like this person returns today for the first time to see the damage. >> look at the rubble and broken glass, look at the ceiling, my house was destroyed, and if i had room was filled with concrete, we would not have fled the house. >> those who took stock -- >> they have recorded significant fatalities and injuries of overwhelming health facilities, 33% oessential medical supplies.

even if the hospitals were functioning, they would not be able to providehe care and services. >> the who said 30 gaza health facilities were damage including one that w completely level. the european union also welcomed into the bloodshed but insisted that all only a political solution would bring lasting peace. in the recent days, president biden had stepped up to de-escalate the violence, and secretary of state antony blinken will soon head to the region. >> for the past 10 or 11 days, we have be very focused, and we have engaged in intense planning. >> price also acknowledge the long road that lies ahead. >> no one is under any solutions -- illusions that they are on

the docket, or maybe later this year. our goal in the meantime is to do all we can to improve lives, to build confidence, to instill opportunity in some degree of hope, so that together, they can work constructively with israelis. >> a goal that has frustrated so many white houses in the past. ♪ >> i am stephanie sy with newshour west, we will return to the rest of the show after these headlines. the world health organization said the true death toll is likely far higher than reported. the official global figure is 3.4 million but the agency estimates the real figure could be six to 8 million. we will take a closelook after the noose summary. state of california says it will

drop all social distancing requirements and allow full capacity for businesses starting june 15. the announcement came today as a health officials acknowledged that not everyone is comfortable. dr. anthony felt she is -- >> as we have said with the recent cdc guidelines, saying that she could feel comfortable, that if you're fully vaccinated and safe from being infected be it outdoors or indoors, you can understand that when people are following a certain train for a considerable time, that it may take time for them to adjust. >> president biden hosted the south korean president at the white house today, and they agreed to a comprehensive partnership aimed at the prying -- supplying more vaccines. moon is pushing for new diplomacy to curb the new

efforts by the north also known as the dprk, and mr. biden offered his take at a joint news conference. >> the two nations also share willingness to engage diplomatically to take pragmatically. as we move towards our ultimate goal of the korean peninsula. >> they also discussed ways of countering china's growing influencin the pacific region. and the two present -- during the korean war, they ran across the battlefield to draw fire and reveal enemy positions. his supporters campaign for decades, and he is now 94. today's ceremony, the president's flank tim for a photograph, and said the honor was long overdue. late tonight, authorities said that they were the former

financier on the dayhat he -- the guards were accused of sleeping and browsing on the internet instead of monitoring the convicted sex offender. they were charged with lying. as a part of a deal with federal prosecutors, they will not serve time behind bars. the attorney general of minnesota will take over prosecuting the former police officer who killed daunte wright. ellison announced today that his office will assume the role. kim potter was fired aft the shooting and now faces second-degree manslaughter charges. her lawyer says that she meant to use a taser, but grabbed her gun by mistake. i federal judge ruled friday that the dakota access pipeline can continue operating while the army corps of engineers conducts an environmental review. supporters that opposed the

pipeline say it is operating illegally. owners say shutting it down would cause major economic harm. shareholders and tribune publishing voted on selling the major newspaper chain to a hedge fund known for sweeping staff cuts. they approved a deal valued at $630 million, but the union representing journalists at other papers in the chain said the ballot counting was in dispute. in britain, the government is reviewing oversight of the bbc after a scathing report on a 1995 interview with princess diana. in it, she laid bare her troubled marriage and admitted to having an affair. the inquiry found that journalist martin bashir lied it to get the interview and the bbc covered up the misconduct. diana's eldest son said the interview helped lead to her death two years later in an aut

wreck pursued by paparazzi. >> the interview was a major contribution to making my parents relationship worse and has since hurt senseless others. it brings great sadness to know that the bbc news contributed to the fear, paranoia and the final years with her. >> the bbc has issued an apology to the royal family. still to come onhe newshour, apple and epic games face-off in trial that could decide the future of smartphone apps. breaking down the politics this week. wnba's superstars sue bird on the impact of the league as it marks 25 years, plus much more. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington

and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism. >> while the pandemic's toll is easing in the u.s., it has a firm, deadly grip on a number of other countries. the estimated global death toll from covid-19 remains around 13,000 people a day. the who's new estimates are far higher than many realize. william: more than 600 people died from covid-19 and america in the past 24 hours, though in other countries, the official toll is many times higher and new infections keep climbing. india reported more than 4200 deaths in the last day. brazil, more than 2400. six of the countries with the highest current death rates are in south america and according to the who that is likely a significant underestimate of the real toll come off by 3 million to 4 million deaths at least.

for many of these nations, life-savinvaccines are bary available. dr. gandhi specializes in infectious diseases and global medicine at the university of california san francisco. great to have you on the prram. do you think that these who estimates are accurate, and if those horrible numbers are real, what does that say about the real danger we are still in from this virus? dr. ghandi: this is a very dangerous virus and that there is this paradox of places that have vaccinated quickly and are wealthy and have access to those vaccines going back to normal in discussing when do we get the takeoff masks, and that paradox is completely out of sync with what is going on in so many places in this world. thiss a highly deadly virus, but beyond that, health systems matter. laces where health systems are not equipped to manage this load they do not have they -- the

ygen, fatality rate will be higher. i am not surprised that the death is likely much higher, 13,000 a day. william: you touched on and what we know is the way out of this pandemic which are the life-saving vaccines. what role shld the u.s. play and trying to exhilarate those vaccines globally? -- the -- dr. ghdi: we have the solution, we have it and i think the united states complaint role and i think we all want to go back to being the global health leader that we have played so often in the past and the four ways are something we have already done which is for the future, work wh the wto to temporarily waive vaccine patents.

the biden administration supports this, and it is important for them to keep puing on that, because this is for the future for countries that are not yet in trouble. for what countriesre in trouble right now, we need to donate or loan doses and we do have access doses. i wrote a piece in the "atlantic" and many are young and our kids in this country that could wait to get there doses of vaccine to help people who are much, much more likely to get severe disease in other countries. we do have surplus deuces -- doses. we have 300 million surplus doses, so that -- we have more than that. the pharmaceutical companies should use philanthropy. this is a global health crisis, they will make money. i believe t u.s. could help with urging them. fourth is the u.s. global role

as convening, the u.n. and terms of global manufacturing and really along trying to get vaccines immediately int places that are sging and later into places that are likely to surge. william: i want to touch back on one of the points that you made which the biden administration supporting the patent rights being waived. you mentioned back in the 1990's with the aidspidemic, the patent rights killed millions of people in sub-saharan africa. do you think we have given too much credence to pharmaceutical companies? dr. ghandi: yes, we have. i wrote about as an hiv doctor, i saw from 1996 to 2001 and 2005, arguments about whether we should temporarily waive patents

while millions of people died from aids. the severity was so great and the arguments went on for so long, years and years while for dying. finally, a lawsuit was filed against south africa because they were purchasing cheaper drugs from india, india who provided hiv therapy to the world and the lawsuit got so much international pressure to drop, the pharmaceutical companies dropped it. if we have access to these medications, we cannot let people die in other places. we have to work on vaccine patent waivers now, because of sub-saharan africa is not, it will come to every country. william: dr. ghandi, thank. dr. ghandi: thank you.

♪ amna: the high-stakes court battle between apple and epic games, the maker of fortnite, is nearing an end. today featured an important ment. apple ceo tim cook took the stand to defend the company's app store is against charges that it's grown into a monopoly. lisa desjardins has a look at the antitrust trial. lisa: this was the first time that tim cook has ever tak the witness stand and a courtroom. the battle started in august last year when epic announced it added a new direct payment plan and that gave fortnite players the option to purchase virtual currency from epic rather than from apple. apple takes a 30% cut from any

app sale on its devices. fortnite was removed from the app store giving millions of gamers unable to update to live it again for new releases. epic alleges apple's policies stifle competition and violate antitrust laws. but in court, cook said there's plenty of competition from rivals and set allowing developers to use their own payment plans could expose customers to quote "fraud issues." to unpack all of this i'm joined by reuters reporter stephen nellis. tell us what is at stake for apple but also f folks who have regular iphones? stephen: what is at stake is really what makes apple a $2 billion company. if you think back to wn the iphone was released more than 10 years ago, the big difference versus the pcs at the time was the wall guard, the idea that the only software you can

install is the apple software that it distributes to you. android came in and did the same so it set the bar for the entire mobile phone industry. if you want to be inside as a software developer, you pay a 30% commission, and that is the anchor of the $54 billion services business of apple, and a big part of what has power their profits and what is setting the expectations for everyone's smartphone today. amna: fortnite and epic games are leading the rebellion here. last year, epic games made this move, launching this ad that was sort of mocking or turning around apple's iconic 1984 ad. in this case, it was a game character of launching sword at the apple image itself, but

beyond this idea of good guys and bad guys, the legal case seems to be coming down to what does apple do. is it a device company or is it a games and app company, and is it a monopoly? stephen: it is really important to distinguish two this. first is the actual trial that is at hand, and that is some fairly arcane in legal issues. the first thing you have to decide whether you call someone a monopoly are not is what is the market we are talking about and epic in this case is making an argument that might sound strange to most people. epic is arguing that apple has such a strong lock on its customers that the one billion iphone users are basically their own separate market and by definition, that means that apple has a monopoly over that market because the controls all the software that goes onto the phone. apple wants to frame things differently. first off, they feel that you

can get android phones from samsung, brands and china, apple is a global company, so phones that people might buy, and more to the point, apple is saying this case is about videogames and wheryou can pay to play fortnite, and they are trying to make the argument that in this particular case, they place plenty of competition because game can go play fortnite on their xbox, or pc, so that is what this legal case is about, but what i think is important is that is separate from the larger discussion about antitrust issues and technology platforms. legal experts have said that epic has an uphill battle in the case, but what it is doing is generating a lot of record and the court documents and the testimony that tim cook has today that lawmakers are going to look at and decide, maybe

they are doing within the bounds of current antitrust law, but what if we want to enact reform. that is the bigger battle here. >> what do you think that tim cook wanted to do on the stand? apple called him in themselves. stephen: right. they wanted tim cook to go up there and make the case that all of these rules and restrictions the apple places are all in the servicef the privacy, security, and safety of apple's customer base. tim cook said it on the stand, he said this is not about money, this is all about the user and experience. they want a phone that works, they don't want bugs in software, malware, and other software that crashes their phone. they want some thing that is reliable and feel like they can hand it to their children and know that all of the software

that is going to be on their is going to be safe and secure and appropriate. that is important for a couple of reasons. number one, that is definitely apple's defense in the broad public sphere and number two, it is important for a legal reason because under current antitrust law, even if you have a monopoly even if you charge i prices, if you can show that some of the restrictions that you put on one side of a two-sided marketplace like developers trying to get to the iphone customer, if you can show that it has some real benefits for the customers on the other side of the break, the courts have said, sometimes that can be ok, so it had an important rhetorical function. >> reuters stephen, we will keep following this case, thank you. stephen: thanks.

♪ amna: from the impact of the mideast cease-fire to a potential commission looking into the january 6 capital attack, it is the good time for the anysis of brooks and capehart, that isavid brooks and jonathan capehart, columnists. happy friday. the president was just speaking athe white house actually and was asked about this latest deceit fight -- latest cease-fire, and asked if there was a shift in democratic policy when it comes to the approach to israel. this is what he had to say, there is no shift in security of israel, period. david, what do you make of these last 11 days and how he handled it? david: he has kept the u.s. out of being the center of the story. i think he has handled it well. he was pressured to lean on

bb to do the cease-fire, but if he does that, hamas thinks that u.s. is leaning on israel so hamas gets more aggressive. this was the case where being a little passive and doing things and private was much more effective than doing things in public, so i think the administration was wise. amna: he was asked of that question because there has been growing pressure from within the party from progressives like bernie sanders and others to do more in the way of standing up for the human rights of palestinians, but if you take a look at where the country is today i want to point to some quick numbers we have from gallup. 75% of americanso have a favorable opinion of israel. that is up in the last 20 years by 10 points, but the same pole when you are looking at the number of people saying who they think the u.s. should put more pressure on, 35% now think that the u.s. should put more

pressure on israel and that number is up 44% saying they should put more pressure on palestinians. are you seeing any of that show up in the biden approach? jonathan: i would love to see what a pole would show today -- poll which showed today. i think the bombing of the high-rise building in gaza that also has international news organizations was a pivot point in all of this where the private conversations that were happening took on even more urgency and then forced the president to go even more public in terms of putting pressure on the israeli government to do something to curb the violence, but when it comes to the democratic party and the forces pulling back and forth, i bring up t pivot point because another bob menendez who is the chair of the foign relations committee is known in washington as being a stalwart ally within

the united states senate, supporter of israel and israel's right to defend itself. after that bombing of that building in gaza, tenet or menendez put out statement that caught the white house by surprise and a lot of people by surprise by condemning or raising very serious questions about what israel had done. i think that made it possible for president biden to be a little more forceful in his conversations with prime minister netanyahu. amna: let me ask you more broadly about presidt biden's approach. you had a good chunk of time to sit down with him as the subject of your latest column, and you write, what happened to joe biden? many people thought he was a moderate incrementalist, but now he is promoting big packages that make many on the progressive left extremely

happy. the answer seems to be, it's complicated. tell us about that conversation, how is a complicated? amna: i believe we have lost the connection with david brooks, but we will try to get him back. in the meantime, jonathan, you have read this column. long assessment of where president biden is an faces this criticism of no longer being a moderate incrementalist, what do you make of it? jonathan: david's column was terrific in being able to sit down with the president, particularly this president who wears everything on his sleeve. i have been on a phone call between the president and opinion writers, including david, so i can imagine how that conversation went. i think president biden is sort of the president who is meeting the moment. a lot of people wonder whether

progressives have pulled the party further to the left, or pushing the party further to the left and i counter that. i think that president biden doing what he is doing, it is that the party is catching up to the country. you take off any issue and ask where the american people are, let's just take raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, the american peoplwant that done, the democratic party has been pushing for that for a long time. the president of the united states is pushing for that. the beauty of david's column and what i loved about is that it takes sort of the policy issues that we are talking about now, the american jobs plan, the families plan, the american rescue plan, and broadens i ou and the way that david famously done to the 35,000 foot level and shows that joe biden,

it is the last line in the column, joe biden has not changed, it is just that he's gone bigger. the price tag is gone bigger than what he pushed for when he was in the senate for 36 years, the policies that he champions when he was vice president with president obama, so i don't know if it is right to call president biden incrementalist. i think he is incrementalist when it suits his purposes to get something done right away. but he is going big and he is going big because the problems facing the country are large, but also, he views it through the international prism, which i think david puts in his column because of his time on the senate foreign relations committee, that the problems that america is cing, they are impacting not just america at

home, but america standing abroad. amna: for anybody wondering why david brooks is not to weighing in on his own column, we just lost connection with them and we are trying to bring him back. i want to talk about this vote on the potential commission to look into the january 6 capitol attack. there was also that came before the house, and 35 republicans joined democrats to back that commission. did that number surprise you? jonathan: here's the thing that surprised me. what surprises me is that it was only 35. leave aside the politics of everything of why it was just 35. the january 6 commission should not be a partisan issue, this should be a patriotism issue. what happened on that day was horrifying. people trying to rush the capitol, invading the capitol,

while the united states congress was certifying a free and fair, democratic election and making it official that joe biden would be the president of the united states. those people tried to stop that. the people who voted against the commission, the other republans who voted against the commission, they were there that day. how they could not vote to approve a commission that would look into what happened just so that we find out whatappened but to learn as we can do to make sure it does not happen again. it is a shame. amna: this is right now with the senate, 10 republicans there would need to back it for that commission to move forward. do youee that happening? jonathan: i am having a hard time seeing that happening.

if memory serves, seven republicans voted with the democrats to vote to convict then-president -- at that point, he was former president trump, during impeachment. i do not see where the other three votes to get to 10 come from for it that is assuming that those seven vote for the commission. amna: jonathan capehart joining us tonight. i apologize for david brooks tonight, it is always good to talk to you. jonathan: great to see you. thanks. ♪ amna: even as the pandemic shows some signs of easing in the united states, the numbers of death does continue to climb. each friday, we have been honoring some of the incredible

lives lost during the pandemic. here tonight are five more. bob costello served as the fire chief for the fast-growing city of buckeye, arizona for more than a dozen years. the department with bob at the helm expanded with the city. even then, a coworker said the 62-year-old was keen to connect with colleagues in person, whether it was to field their questions or just say hello. bob was a car buff. a passion that began early in life and he was quick to reach out to friends when they were going through struggles, his wife told us. he would always take the time to make sure they were ok. there were three things that defined the life of 64-year-old bernita raiford kershaw. family, church, and the new york police department said her daughter. a lifelong new yorker, bernita

dedicated 30 years to the nypd. she took great pride in her job and enjoyed helping friends, relatives, and strangers find careers within the departments. described by her loved ones as silly, vivacious, and resilient, bernita was a loving partner to her soulmate edwin, and devoted mother and grandmother. serving and celebrating the nave american community in chicago gave angel salas eva sense of pride and purpose, said his son. the 70-year-old elder was a healer and recognize chief of the lakota tribe. a vietnam veteran, angel cared about honoring other native veterans for their service. he helped organize annual gathering of vets from across the country. his loved one said that angel was a giving man who would be the first in line to help anyone in need. angel shared his love of native traditions with his nine children. 89-year-old jane speir relished

seeking out new challenges. around the time the first-ever children left for college, she returned to school as well earning both her bachelors and masters degrees while in her 40's. jane took of skiing at 57 and over the years, the active church and volunteer from georgia proved to be a gardener. she passed on her love of plants to her five children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. above all, retired lieutenant colonel john sloan aspired to a career in service. it is why the former munitions officer in vietnam veteran joined the u.s. air force and stayed for more than two decades. it was also why john made a second career as a university development officer. the 76-year-old especially enjoyed catching up with his brothers at family functions. one brother described john as fun-loving, optimistic, and

"always looking on the bright side." as always, we want to say thank you to all of the family to share the stories with us and we want to know that john sloan was a brother of one of our board members here at weta where the show is produced. this pandemic has touched so many of us and some weight over the last year. the women's national basketball association is celebrating a milestone this week. it is 25 anniversary. the wnba has fought not only for national recognition of its athletes but long been at the forefront of the racial justice movement and the fight for lgbtq rights. the league has faced its share of hurdles, but the wnba continues to prove its resilience and relevance. to the 2020 season was dedicated

to breonna taylor. players took a united and against former republican sanity -- senator kelly loeffler who co-owned george's atlanta dream team and criticize the league support for the black lives matter movement. to explore the league successes and hardships, i'm joined by sue bird. she's one for titles in the league and is an 11 time all-star. welcome to the newshour, and this is going to be your 18th season in the league. you have played more minutes and more games than anyone else. what does this moment mean to you? sue: it is pretty special, both to know that i have been able to play ts longer, but also that i've been able to see the league grow. right now, it feels like there is a turning point and there is momentum being built, and you mentioned it, the work that is

done off the court, but also the work on the court. amna: you have been playing this long and you have been straight killing it and the league has come a very long way. there have been some landmark deals when it comes to pay increases and paid maternity leave. you guys have led the way when it comes to all of the pro leagues taking a stance for social and racial justice. why do you think that is, why do you think the wnba has been able to lead that way? sue: it is a product of a couple of things. the makeup of our league, you look at the percentages, we have a high percentage of black women in our league, we have a high percentage in the lgbtq community, these are things that we live, and of course we are women. being marginalized in different ways. that does not leave us just

because we put a basketball uniform and started playing again. i think it is in our dna, but we also found is through our time, as basketball players, trying to get a professional legal going, trying to make it successful, we have encountered a lot of different things there, and i joke, people say shut up and well, we wanted to. we wanted to be best ballplayers and ing judged for our play on the courts, but it seems like everybody else likes to talk about all the other things that surrounds our league, that we should look more feminine. i think through that journey, we developed a backbone, andow not only do we stand up for ourselves, but we love to extend our voice to others as well. amna: you guys have lived through the pandemic in the same weight that the rest of the country and the world has, too. this next season's bubble-less. are you worried about going back

to some version of a new normal? sue: yes and no. at times, when we are starting to travel now, we are taking commercial flights and we are in airpor, and it can be a little alarming at first to see people without masks, but simultaneously, our league has done a tremendous job of educating our members, our players on the vaccine. i do not have a -- an exact percentage, but i am sure that our league is going to be pretty close to vaccinated. not only have we educated ourselves, we are also willing to help educate others and hopefully instill some vaccination confidence for some people who have been on the fence. that gives me great confidence heading into this that we will be able to play safely. amna: this also revealed that a lot of the same gaps still exist in pro sports. whether we talk about reduced

games for the wnba, worse facilities than the men's league, and of course, women still make a smaller percentage of the league revenue. at this .25 years into the league, what do you think it will take a next to close some of those gaps. amna: a lot of people like to compare us to the men, and i understand why. i cannot to fall into that trap, i think the nba is incredibly successful for a lot of reasons and some of those reasons are investment. we have not gotten that investment, we have not gotten the corporate sponsorship. we have not gotten the media coverage. it is something like we get 4% of media coverage. to mean, when you think about the first 25 years in the wnba and then maybe think of what is the next into our 50th year, we just have not been invested in, so to me it is like, wt a great investment. we are hanging on and we are doing well and a product on the

core is getting better and better without the investment, so imagine what would happen from zero if you go to two or three and you get something in the investment category. it can only do better, so that excites me. amna: you and the seattle storm are kicking off this season a defending champ's. care to make a prediction? is it back t back? sue: back to back is hard, back to back is hard. you do not see it often, there is a reason. it is really hard when you have that target on yr back. of course i'm going to say tha i think we will when, but i also know that it is up for grabs. we had a lot of turnover on our roster, so i guess you will have to tune in. amna: great message for everyone out there. sue bird of the champion seattle storm at the wnba marks 25 years. sue: thank you for having me. ♪

amna: next week marks the one-year anniversary of george floyd's murder in minneapolis. his death at the hands of police touched off a global protests and a worldwide artistic response. it is a part of our series, race matters, america after george floyd and our ongoing arts and culture coverage, candace. >> on plywood and sidewalks, brick walls and windows, creative expressions from this year of racial reckoning now envelop the citthat sparked the movements. >> in the days following his death, george floyd image became an icon around the world. here in the city of minneapolis, there is an explosion of public art featuring floyd's face and a broader theme of racial justice.

this person grew up near 30 eight st and chicago avenue in minneapolis, the intersection where george floyd was killed on may 25, 2020. he remembers the first time he watched the video of floyd's death. >> i kept seeing my father's face on george's face. i thought i was alone in the anger i felt in that moment and i wanted to go out and physically protest. i had a few people tell me that i had a stronger voice than to go out and physically protest, which was my art voice, as a street artist. >> he got to work on what would become one of the most recognized depictions of george floyd, a 12 foot black-and-white mural that for the past year has been perched just above the spot where floyd drew his last breath. >> and the times that i was peeping painting the sugar, and seeing that face that large and with that black and white

was really profound to me. my original thought was i was going to install this at night as an act of street art anonymously, and paint mr. floyd's face as large as i could as a way to say, look what you did. put it somewhere that was just really intrusive as an obstacle. my first idea was the bolt it to the middle of street on the intersection of 38th. >> but he realized that stiff breeze could knock a mural over, or could be taken by the city. but he arrived with a group of about 30 people that helped bolt it to the bus shelter where it sits today. >> i have been contacted to get permission to use that piece and a number of backgrounds and stories, and i have been really careful about -- am i really

morally that person to say who can use this and who can't, because i painted it for the community. i needed to let it go and let the community own it. that is what street art is all about. >> over the past 12 months, countless pieces have been left at the intersection now known as george floyd square. posters and handwritten notes, flower bouquets, and drawings. some have made their way here to a pop-up exhibition near the square called still here, on stolen, unbroken. janelle austin is the lead caretaker. just steps from the exhibit. >> i like to call it creative expressions of pain and hope instead of art, and really honoring the people who have laid down first and foremost as protests.

everything is something that someone's offering therefore nothing is thrown away. >> alston had a specific vision, remind people of emotion during the early day of protests. >> we are building a rememory, and the offering itself calls people into a place where they remember where we were, they remember where they were, and they are then commissioned to continue the work of racial stice. >> itas like an embrace that pulled people back to the time. >> exactly. >> alston hopes to raise fds for a permanent place large enough to fit all of these offerings as well as a traveling exhibit, but she has been deliberate from the source of that funding. she chose not to take money from the city of minnesota. >> when i look at the story of the lynching of george floyd, i see a city employee on city time that killed a man. >> it is holding those two contradictions, it is saying,

can we trust you? >> the city's director of arts, culture, and the creative economy said the killing of george floyd broke down the trust between the city, local artists, and the residents. >> looking at what happened, it really was a sense of despair on my part in seeing all of that hard work really disappear with the action of one person. >> after floyd's killing and the unrest, the office repurposed 100,000 dollars in grants for artists responding to the grants and one went to creative's after curfew, a collective that painted a set of murals. >> the murals we started making of course on one hand was a way to process and a way to grieve and community and to also share

these particular stories and messages, but also, it was a way to heal and connect with each other, because watching and hearing about george floyd's murder and isolation when we had all been separate for a couple of months at that point with the pandemic, was incredibly difficult. you did not even have to talk, just the act of painting, processing and that way can be very healing for some people. and speaking for myself. >> with messages of solidarity, black liberation, she says that who created them a mattere >> we were seeing a lot of nonblack artists taking up a lot of space. if it is a movement for black lives, those folks should be able to tell their owstories. >> she said there were challenges in deciding where to paint, too. >> something i saw last summer was businesses using black trauma as a way to protect their

property. so they are putting up boards, asking artists to come use murals and do not actually aligned with the messages in the murals, it is a very performative act. >> you think that some businesses were commissioning artists to make murals so that their businesses would not be attacked? >> absolutely. that was happeng. >> one year later, she sees a dual-purpose. >> they are a liberatory space where people can strive for the messages that are being portrayed. >> for pbs newshour, i am in minneapolis. amna: fred's reporting is partnership with the undertold stories project with the university of st. thomas in minnesa. next week marks one year since george floyd was killed, but what has changed in this year of

road tests and national racial reckoning. tuesday night, we hope that you will join us for an hour-long special on pbs called race matters, america after george floyd. >> ♪ >> in a year of racial reckoning, violence, abuse and inequities exist. the show -- chauvin verdict, yet much more is to be done. pres. biden: now is the time to act. >> how can we create lasting change. raceatters: america after george floyd. a pbs special reports, tuesday, may 25 at 10:00 p.m. 9:00 central. amna: you can watch that special report here on your pbs station at 10:00 p.m. eastern and join thconversation by following the newshour online. and you will want to catch the

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with moral courage. this week on "firing line." >> if we are going to be shaming, blaming, or gaming, we will actually be erecting walls, emotional walls. >> she is a gay muslim refugee, but activist and author irshad manji says don't label me, or each other. >> we never stop being individuals, even as we belong to identifiable groups. >> manji wants americans to shop the shaming. >> what i call the basket of deplorables. >> the failed elites from washington. >> and believes we need to rethink how we define diversi and teach it. manji herself has earned her share of critics. >> i read your books and i see only polarization. it's all black and white. >> and at a time of deep division at home