A Year Later: A Political Elegy For George Floyd

Kevin C. Peterson
4 min readMay 30, 2021

Comments Made During A Global Panel Discussion on the One Year Anniversary of the Lynching of George Floyd

Rev. Kevin C. Peterson

It was a year ago today — in the proximity of this present hour — that George Floyd, a gregarious and large middle-aged Black man, adorned in a black halter top tee-shirt, entered a local convenience store to make purchases…

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Kevin C. Peterson

Kevin Peterson is founder of the New Democracy Coalition and Convener of the Fanueil Hall Race and Reconciliation Project. He is a social and cultural critic.