At the intersection of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, three community organizers—Jeanelle Austin, Toshira Garraway, and Robin Wonsley— embark on interweaving journeys after George Floyd’s murder to care for their communities, find inner healing, and forge a path towards black liberation.
For these activists, this fight is vital to reimagining Minneapolis and changing decades-long issues that have resulted in violence and poverty in the Black community. Austin is a memorial caretaker at George Floyd Square, a place of protest that remembers George Floyd and others killed unjustly from state-sanctioned violence, and and she hopes that her work archiving Black history will be a living monument; Wonsley decides to run for city council and strives to change the city’s corrupt police department; and Garraway is the leader of Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence, trying to bring justice to the victims’ families. The People’s Way is both a record of their work at this critical juncture and a clarion call to action.