It's been 2 months since George Floyd's death. Here's what has and hasn't changed.

Saturday will mark two months since George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, igniting a national reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality.

The intervening two months have seen a remarkable cultural embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement, which was featured on the mound at Nationals Park on the opening day of Major League Baseball.

Pennsylvania signed a pair of police reform bills into law, including background checks requiring officers seeking new positions to reveal previous employment records. Is there a chance legislation will proceed? Maybe. Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the architect of the GOP's failed police reform bill, said earlier this month that he was talking to senior House Democrats and moving closer to a potential deal.

On the other side of the cultural divide is Sen. Tom Cotton. The Arkansas Republican has a proposal to ban federal funding for schools that teach the 1619 curriculum, which is meant to raise awareness about the taint of slavery and its generational impact.In June, Trump signed an executive order that, among other things, created a federal database of police officers with histories of using excessive force.

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