Juneteenth, a combination of "June" and "19th," marks the day in 1865 that African-Americans enslaved in Texas, the most remote Confederate state, learned they were free.
Derek Chauvin was fired by the Minneapolis Police Department after video footage showed him kneeling on George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes before Floyd died.
Activists against racial injustice and police brutality have begun galvanizing behind calls to either defund or disband police departments, but the two proposals have key differences.