DALLAS — Rallies, marches and events will be held in cities across the country to commemorate the life of George Floyd, who was killed a year ago on May 25, 2020. President Joe Biden will also host Floyd’s family at the White House on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of his death at the hands of police.

One organization in Dallas says now is the time to keep up the momentum for the Black Lives Matter movement, and will be hosting events all week long to mark the inaugural “George Floyd Week.” The Next Generation Action Network in Dallas describes itself as one of the strongest voices of social justice in the region, and the group says it will not stay silent at a time when group members say it’s so important to speak out.

“Continue to mobilize, continue to put a highlight on policing and the state of policing. And I tell people that it's not time to give up. It’s time to press forward and press harder,” said NGAN president minister Dominque Alexander.

The images of protests around the nation after George Floyd’s death are forever seared into the mind of Alexander. This time last year, he was on the streets of Dallas protesting police brutality. He asserts that law enforcement in Texas can “pretty much get away with anything,” and it’s something he wants to see changed.

"At the end of the day, we want to change what it looks like and what it feels like to be policed in this country,” Alexander said. "Texas has some of the most pro-police laws than any state in the country. There's no system of accountability or structure of accountability towards Texas policing."

While George Floyd’s death sent shockwaves across the nation, Alexander knows there are victims who don’t get that same level of attention.

"For people who have been part of this movement for some time, it's nothing new. You know, you've gotten numb of the situation. I know for me, just yesterday, I was going through a list of victims of police brutality. And names that I knew I was very well involved with that I like pretty much didn't even remember,” Alexander said. "Like, one of the things I always say is that every victim, every family doesn't get the same attention like a George Floyd or a Breonna Taylor. It does not mean that their issues are not important, it just means that this oppressive system has won to suppress the facts about the case."

What he does know is the events across the nation to commemorate Floyd’s death is just the inaugural George Floyd Week. NGAN plans to recognize this anniversary each year.

 "We plan on being able to do these things every year to be able to highlight some of the pain of police brutality across locally and across the country,” Alexander said. "After the death of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, of course, we saw our country basically rocked in areas and the movement for Black lives. And yet at the end of the day, what we're saying this week is that we don't want to lose that momentum. The movement for Black lives must win, that everyone should be protected, and that the statehood of policing must change,” Alexander said.

For more information about NGAN’s George Floyd Week, visit https://linktr.ee/Georgefloydweek or text: GeorgeFloydWeek to 56525.