The anniversary of George Floyd’s death was remembered Tuesday in Oakland by city and state leaders, youth and others gathered at Youth UpRising, said the office of Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland.

The 11 a.m. gathering at 8711 MacArthur Blvd. and was hosted by the Oakland branch of the NAACP. A separate memorial gathering followed at noon at Broadway and Telegraph Avenue by the Anti Police-Terror Project and Defund Police Coalition.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.