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Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin took a trip to Minneapolis and spoke to the city's mayor Jacob Frey, Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison and national civil rights attorney Ben Crump to reflect on how the city and nation have changed.

The City of Bloomington's Downtown for Everyone project is moving through the 500 block of North Main Street as scheduled and is still expected to cost $13.2 million. Residents and business owners are continuing to adapt through sometimes inconvenient construction work.

Nearly a week before its scheduled auction at Sotheby's auction house, the collected personal correspondence of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was bought by a group of investors and philanthropic leaders to be given to King's alma mater, Morehouse College. Ed Gordon talks to Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and King family attorney Phil Jones about the sale.

A water crisis in Jackson came to head this winter when freezing storms wreaked havoc on the city's crumbling infrastructure, leaving residents without running water for an entire month.

Justin Bibb, 34, won his race the same day voters amended the city charter to strengthen civilian oversight of the Cleveland Police Department.

Novelist Kevin Baker has just published the third volume of his City on Fire trilogy. Strivers Row is set in Harlem in 1943. The story focuses on a fictional character — Jonah Dove — and the very real Malcolm Little, later to become Malcolm X.

From the beginning, race has been part of the story of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans' recovery has also become an issue of black and white. In this majority African American city, some people believe there is a hidden agenda to discourage some of them from returning home.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators file through Atlanta's streets as part of a national "campaign for immigrants' dignity." In cities nationwide, demonstrators continue to show their opinions on the debate over immigration and border enforcement.

The situation in New Orleans continues to deteriorate, with widespread flooding and looting. The evacuation of thousands of people from the Superdome in the city was halted early Thursday when shots were fired at military helicopters. There are also reports of armed carjackings.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is claiming he's successfully liberated the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, even though several thousand Ukrainian troops and civilians remain in hiding at a steel mill on the city's waterfront.