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Minerva Arias (left), 38, from Washington Heights in New York City, poses for a portrait between the George Floyd Lives Forever and Black Brown Unity murals after participating in a ceremony at an ancestral altar at 14th and Broadway during a George Floyd protest at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 4, 2020. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last week.

“It’s really important to me to create spaces and experiences for other women of color — people of color — to really reconnect with their ancestors, to connect with their whole being, to connect with who they really are. As everything begins to change, systems are being destroyed, and we’re out here trying to create something new, it has to be with ancestors by our side.”
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Minerva Arias (left), 38, from Washington Heights in New York City, poses for a portrait between the George Floyd Lives Forever and Black Brown Unity murals after participating in a ceremony at an ancestral altar at 14th and Broadway during a George Floyd protest at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 4, 2020. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last week.<br /> <br /> “It’s really important to me to create spaces and experiences for other women of color — people of color — to really reconnect with their ancestors, to connect with their whole being, to connect with who they really are. As everything begins to change, systems are being destroyed, and we’re out here trying to create something new, it has to be with ancestors by our side.”