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Rod Adams, Executive Director of New Justice Project MN, says the same forces we protested in 2020 are now expanding under ...
A rally Sunday in Chicago was part of a larger national effort by many of the same groups that amplified the Black Lives ...
Five years ago today, the police killing of George Floyd provoked a wave of change. As those gains come under attack, ...
Floyd’s deadly arrest on May 25, 2020 helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...
A rally Sunday in Chicago was part of a larger national effort by many of the same groups that amplified the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd's killing five years ago.
George Floyd’s brother, Brooklyn resident Terrence Floyd, reflected Sunday on his older brother’s murder by a Minneapolis ...
As the cities where Floyd grew up and died hold commemorations, the US "reckoning" with racism seems to be fading.
Five years ago today, George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed Black man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, in Minneapolis.
One rumor we've fact-checked is whether U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters once introduced a bill to rename Memorial Day as "George ...
Five years ago today, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died after white police officer Derek Chauvin pinned him to the ground with his knee for 9 minutes and 29 seconds outside a corner store in ...
One legacy of Black Lives Matter is how it engaged young people in causes beyond police brutality in the United States. Many ...
What lessons can we pull from the movement of 2020 — its victories and its shortcomings — in the continued fight for Black liberation? #policebrutality ...