George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter Gianna granted full-ride college scholarship

Texas Southern University has decided to provide a full scholarship to George Floyd's 6-year-old daughter Gianna when she reaches college age. George Floyd's funeral was held at his hometown in Houston on Tuesday when the Texas Southern University announced their gesture on Facebook in order to "honor the memory of George Floyd on the day that he is laid to eternal rest." The Facebook post read, "Mr.

Gianna Floyd sadly buried her dad, George Floyd, this week, after he was senselessly murdered over the Memorial Day holiday in Minneapolis.

George Floyd's daughter just received a generous gift. Gianna Floyd, 6, has been offered a full scholarship to Texas Southern University in honor of her dad, who grew up in Houston, Texas.

day of Floyd's funeral in his hometown of Houston.  The school said on Facebook that the gesture is a way it «honors the memory of George Floyd on the day that he is laid to eternal rest.» «Mr. Floyd was a lifelong citizen of the Third Ward and a revered graduate of Jack Yates High School.

Almost two weeks after his death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, George Floyd was laid to rest in hometown Houston, Texas. A sea of mourners gathered on the streets to pay their last respects, many others stood in long queues during Floyd's public memorial.

George Floyd has been laid to rest. On Tuesday, a private funeral service was held for George at the Fountain of Praise Church in his hometown of Houston, Texas.

UPDATE (6/9/20 @ 3:15PM ET): Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum were among thousands of mourners who attended George Floyd’s funeral service on June 9, in George’s hometown of Houston, TX. The actors stood with the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Eric Garner and wore white to the somber event. In practicing safety precautions during the COVID-19 outbreak, they also wore face masks.

Joe Biden is sending a message of love and strength to George Floyd's family following his fatal arrest last month. The 77-year-old former vice president's video message played at Floyd's Houston, Texas, funeral on Tuesday.«To George's family and friends, Jill and I know the deep hole in your hearts when you bury a piece of your soul deep in this Earth,» Biden said, alluding to his son, Beau's, 2015 death.

Former Vice President Joe Biden flew to Houston, Texas on June 8 to meet with George Floyd‘s family ahead of his massive, public memorial. The Floyd family’s lawyer, Benjamin Crump, tweeted a solemn photo (see HERE) of himself and Biden, 77, standing alongside the Reverend Al Sharpton, Representative Cedric Richmond (D-LA), and Roger Floyd, George’s uncle.

George Floyd's 6-year-old daughter Gianna, who was seen triumphantly chanting about how her daddy changed the world after protests for his death raged across the US, is now realising that her father has left and has revealed in an interview that she is missing being around him. Little Gianna sat down for Good Morning America on Wednesday and was also joined by her mother Roxie Washington.

There will be public memorial services held for George Floyd, whose death last week in the custody of Minneapolis police sparked nationwide protests, in the three cities where he lived.

George Floyd's 6-year-old daughter, Gianna, is opening up about her father's death. Floyd's young daughter sat down with on Wednesday and said she wants the world to know «that I miss him.»

George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter, Gianna, gushed about her late father in a moving Tuesday, June 2, video.

A little over a week after George Floyd‘s tragic death, the mother of his daughter spoke out at a press conference in Minneapolis.

George Floyd‘s six-year-old daughter Gianna and Gianna‘s mother Roxie Washington gave a heartbreaking interview on Good Morning America on Wednesday (June 3) to discuss his murder at the hands of a white police officer.

This is so bittersweet. George Floyd‘s daughter Gianna is aware of what a significant figure her late dad has become.

The mother of George Floyd’s daughter spoke out on Tuesday for the first time since Floyd’s death in an attempt to get “everybody to know that this is what those officers took.” In a short, tearful statement alongside the daughter she had with Floyd, Roxie Washington mourned the loss of Floyd as a father to 6-year-old Gianna.