George Floyd and Derek Chauvin grew up on opposite sides of the racial divide that cuts through America. The story of their lives reflects that reality.
George Floyd and Derek Chauvin grew up on opposite sides of the stark racial divide that cuts through America. Mr. Floyd graduated from a mostly black high school in Houston in 1993, part of a class that had seen so much turmoil that students adopted the slogan, “Only the strong survived.
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