A dispatch from Minneapolis

This week's top stories: "It's not over, and it's not like everything is done." The work continues after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's murder conviction this week.   Goldman Sachs this week revealed its Black workforce numbers for the first time.  Los Angeles is set to be the largest city to offer a guaranteed income program for poor residents. I didn't know what to expect when I arrived in Minneapolis from New York City to cover the end of the case against the former cop who killed George Floyd, and report on the city at the center of one of the biggest social movements in U.S. history.  In the days leading up to the verdict, the city felt tense, anxious, and fearful. The Hennepin County Courthouse, where Derek Chauvin was being tried, looked more like a military base than a hall of justice. Massive fences and barricades covered with razorwire surrounded the area. Imposing military vehicles and Humvees were posted up around the city. Most downtown businesses were boarded up. The Hennepin County Courthouse ahead of the Derek Chauvin verdict. Photographer: Fola Akinnibi Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had activated the National Guard, declaring a state of emergency in the city. Anna Tsantir, who owns Two Bettys Green Cleaning Service, a business just down the road from a police precinct that was set ablaze last year, said it felt like there was an occupying force in the city. She spent most of the week worrying about her 60 cleaners who have had to travel around the city during after curfews to get to cleaning jobs.  One staffer, Kia Bailey-Quinn, witnessed an unmarked semi-truck pull up in front of Bettys and unload gear into Humvees. She cut the lights in the shop, locked the doors and hid. "It was very confusing and very frightening," Bailey-Quinn said. The mood immediately and dramatically shifted after the murder conviction. People flooded George Floyd Square, a memorial site outside of the Cup Foods where he was killed, hugged each other, cried, chanted and cheered. Minneapolis ahead of the Derek Chauvin verdict. Photographer: Fola Akinnibi Still, the celebration was short lived. Daunte Wright, who was killed by an officer less than 15 miles away in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, has not yet been buried. There are three other officers facing trials for their actions on May 25 last year. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a federal police reform bill that would, among other things, restrict qualified immunity, has stalled in the Senate. And just minutes before the verdict, Columbus, Ohio police officers shot and killed Ma'Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl. "A conviction is not the end of injustice," Bailey-Quinn said. "It's not even close." —Fola Akinnibi Follow Us Get the newsletter By the Numbers Mothers are struggling to break back into the workforce after leaving in droves during the pandemic, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.    Before You Go Which will come first for the U.K.'s oil industry:  Net-zero carbon emissions or gender parity? Black vaccination rates still lag in the U.S., but some states are making rapid progress toward greater equity.  The turmoil in Google's Ethical AI division began long before the public unraveling a few months ago.    Like getting the Bloomberg Equality newsletter? Subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to trusted, data-driven journalism and gain expert analysis from exclusive subscriber-only newsletters. Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can't find anywhere else. Learn more.   You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Bloomberg Equality newsletter. Unsubscribe | Bloomberg.com | Contact Us Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022