For the past three three years, I’ve been working this audio tour: Days of Rage, Nights of Fire: A History Tour of Midtown Minneapolis. Part of my motivation was that the week after George Floyd’s murder was starting to fade away. I felt like it needed to be preserved.

If you’re wondering (or trying to recall) what it was like to be in Minneapolis in late May of 2020, please check this out.

The walking tour goes from George Floyd Square, through Powderhorn Park and down Lake Street to the Third Precinct. Along the way, we walk through the week day by day, with a few detours into Lake Street’s deeper history. I

Thanks to Shannon Gibney and Ed Bok Lee, who both kindly agreed to read their poems from Under Purple Skies. And thanks to Carolyn Holbrook, Julie Ingebretson and Fred Braithwaite who all offered their thoughts and perspectives on the time.

I hope this tour goes some way toward preserving the memories of those days, which were some of the darkest and most difficult in the Minneapolis’s history.

Take the tour here.