The literary and free expression organization PEN America honored Darnella Frazier, the quick-thinking and dauntless young woman who filmed the murder of George Floyd, with the 2020 PEN/Benenson Courage Award.

Minneapolis agreed Friday to ban chokeholds by police and to require officers to try to stop any other officers they see using improper force, in the first concrete steps to remake the city’s police department since George Floyd’s death.

Protesters stirred by the death of George Floyd vowed Friday to turn an extraordinary outpouring of grief into a sustained movement as demonstrations shifted to a calmer, but no less determined focus on addressing racial injustice.