Live Updates on George Floyd Protests: A National Push for Sweeping Reforms

As protests stretch into a second weekend, the pandemic’s job losses hit blacks especially hard. With memorials and demonstrations planned across the United States for the second consecutive weekend — and diverse crowds of tens of thousands marching shoulder to shoulder — a return to public life in the country has been as sudden as its closing down was three months ago. But even as George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis last month…