CNN entertainment | Prince: Five years after his death, his beloved Minneapolis has been in turmoil

(CNN) – Wednesday marks the fifth anniversary of the death of musical icon Prince, and the world has not felt the same since he left us.

Nowhere does that feel more true than in the city he both loved and helped to put on the map, Minneapolis.

Racial strife existed in the city long before the murder of George Floyd — a fellow Black man who also adored Minneapolis. But the trial of the police officer who caused his death, coupled with police recently killing another Minnesota Black man, Daunte Wright, have heightened racial tensions and attracted a global spotlight.

In many ways it feels like Prince foretold that these days would come.  —read more—