The ways that
George Floyd
changed the world.

After investors pressure corporations to pull their support of the Washington National Football League team, the owner jettisons the offensive name after eight decades.

In December, the Cleveland major league baseball franchise drops Indians as its name

NASCAR in June bans the display of Confederate flags, a fixture of stock car races, at the urging of its lone prominent Black driver, Bubba Wallace.

The Chicago Blackhawks NHL team bans the wearing of headdresses during hockey games in the United Center, calling them “sacred” symbols.

The parent companies of Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth syrups, Cream of Wheat cereal and Uncle Ben's rice announce they're overhauling the brands to eliminate racial stereotypes.

Pharmacy chains including Walgreens, Walmart and CVS discontinue the practice of securing Black beauty products in anti-theft cases.

IBM notifies Congress that it will no longer market facial recognition technology, in response to demands for police reforms.

Mutual of Omaha replaces its Indian chief logo with a lion, a reference to its longtime sponsorship of "Wild Kingdom."

Google CEO Sundar Pichai pledges to raise the proportion of "underrepresented groups" in leadership to 30% by 2025.

Starting June 2, 2020, more than 160 Confederate monuments and other symbols are removed from public and private buildings and places.

Mississippi lawmakers in June vote to replace the state flag, which incorporated the Confederate battle flag, with a new one centered on a magnolia blossom.

On June 7, protesters in Bristol, England, topple a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and toss it in Bristol harbor.

The Pentagon is proceeding with renaming Fort Bragg and other military bases named for Confederate leaders, after Congress overrode President Donald Trump's veto of a defense bill mandating the change.

Responding to local protests over George Floyd’s death, the City Council in Hamilton, New Zealand, removes a statue of British Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton, the city's namesake celebrated for his role in a war against the indigenous Maori people.

Belgium removes the statue of its colonial-era King Leopold II, blamed for the nation's bloody oppression of Congo, after protests over George Floyd break out in Ghent.

The Paramount cable network cancels the long-running reality TV program "Cops" after a public outcry that it glorifies police and denigrates communities.

Responding to concerns last summer, Scrabble tournaments officially ban the use of 236 words deemed racial and ethnic slurs or otherwise objectionable.

The massively popular video game Fortnite, with 350 million players worldwide, removes police cars after an update in June.

Producers of the long-running animated TV show “The Simpsons” announce that white actors will no longer voice non-white characters.

The University of Pennsylvania’s museum agrees to remove the display of 1,000 human skulls, some of them of enslaved people, in part because they were used to justify slavery on “scientific” grounds.