New York Protesters Won’t Be Silenced By Curfew
New York City is under curfew this week after the weekend’s protests against police brutality erupted into violent clashes between…
The Truth Behind the ‘No-Knock’ Police Raids that Led to Breonna Taylor’s Death
Breonna Taylor was killed in a drug raid as Louisville police executed a no-knock search warrant in March. The 26-year-old…
What Should I Do If I Witness Police Brutality?
Documentation is crucial when calling out state violence. Here’s what to do if you encounter police abuse or misconduct. This…
Police Mocked Black Man’s Muslim Faith As They Killed Him, New Footage Shows
Newly revealed body camera footage released on Wednesday captured the final moments of Muhammad Muhaymin Jr., a Black Muslim man,…
Oprah Winfrey Demands Justice For Breonna Taylor With 26 Kentucky Billboards
Oprah Winfrey and her O magazine team are using 26 billboards to demand that the officers responsible for the death…
Police facing scrutiny in Elijah McClain case get new chief
DENVER — The interim chief of a suburban Denver police department has become the first woman to permanently lead the…
Newly Leaked Bodycam Footage Shows George Floyd’s Heartbreaking Plea To Police
Leaked footage shows George Floyd begging police not to shoot him minutes before his death by police officers in Minneapolis…
Oprah Gives Up Her Cover Spot On O Magazine To Honor Breonna Taylor
For the first time in over two decades, Oprah Winfrey is nowhere to be seen on the cover of O…
Trevor Noah Examines Breonna Taylor’s Life, Reminds Viewers That Her Killers Still Walk Free
More than four months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot as she lay sleeping in her own home, Trevor Noah…
The Supreme Court Built America’s Broken Policing System And It’s Working Just As Intended
Police and the politicians who protect them get most of the attention in the movement to defund or reform law…
How The Fossil Fuel Industry Funds The Police
Black Americans are one and a half times more likely than white Americans to breathe air polluted by burning fossil…
Police Violence Against Black Disabled People Can’t Be Ignored Anymore
Pearl Pearson Jr. was driving home from a Starbucks in Oklahoma City in 2014 when he noticed police lights flashing…
Minnesota Adopts Police Reforms Following George Floyd Protests
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed new police accountability reforms into law on Thursday, after nearly two months of protest following…
NFL To Allow Players To Put Social Justice Decals On Helmets
The NFL is planning to allow players to have decals on the back of their helmets bearing names or initials…
Workers Nationwide Protest Racial Inequality In ‘Strike For Black Lives’
Workers across the country walked off the job on Monday to protest racial inequality as part of an organized action…
Chicago police, protesters clash during bid to topple statue
Protesters trying to topple a Christopher Columbus statue in downtown Chicago’s Grant Park clashed with police who responded violently with…
Portland Protesters: Federal Cops In Unmarked Vans Are Grabbing Us Off The Street
Demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, say federal officers driving unmarked vans have been stopping to detain people during late-night protests this…
The Anti-Racism Protests Haven’t Stopped
It’s been 50 days since people took to the streets after the police killing of George Floyd — and the…
Trump Snaps ‘So Are White People’ When Asked Why Black People Are Killed By Cops
President Donald Trump took umbrage with a question a CBS News reporter asked about Black Lives Matter on Tuesday. Reporter…
Over 140 Anti-Racism Protesters Sue Philadelphia Over Tear Gas, Use Of Force
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three class-action lawsuits filed in Philadelphia on Tuesday accuse the city of using military-level force that injured…
Protest in Pennsylvania after cop uses knee to restrain man
Activists in Pennsylvania are pressing their demand for police accountability after bystander video emerged over the weekend of an officer…
Richmond removes Confederate Soldiers and Sailors statue
Work crews have taken down the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors statue in Richmond July 8, 2020, 5:03 PM 2 min…
Jaron Jones, Police Officer Who Reenacted Chokehold Of Elijah McClain, Resigns
A Colorado police officer who reportedly mocked the death of Elijah McClain by staging a photo of the young Black…
New York’s Queer Liberation March Ends In Violent Clash With Police
LGBTQ advocates offered a scathing rebuke of the New York City Police Department after a peaceful protest ended in a…
How ‘Qualified Immunity’ Protects Cops From Being Held Accountable
There are a number of reasons justice is so slow ― and often nonexistent ― for victims of police brutality.…
NYPD Announced Internal Review After Black Man’s Violent Arrest. 3 Months Later, Silence.
On a mild Wednesday evening in March, about two weeks before the pandemic all but shut down New York City,…
Rare 1920s Footage: All-Black Towns Living the American Dream | National Geographic
By the 1920s, Oklahoma was home to some 50 African-American towns, in addition to a large and prosperous black community…
House Passes Police Reform Bill
WASHINGTON ― Exactly one month after George Floyd was killed in police custody, House lawmakers returned to the Capitol on…
Colorado Appoints Prosecutor To Investigate Elijah McClain’s Death
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s governor appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to investigate the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black…
George Floyd Died A Month Ago. There Have Been Protests Every Day Since.
Gianna Floyd, the 6-year-old daughter of George Floyd, sat on the shoulders of her father’s close friend earlier this month…
Police Reform Stalls Out In The Senate
A GOP-backed police reform bill stalled in the Senate Wednesday amid historic protests against police brutality across the country, leaving…
Terry Crews: ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Scraps Episodes After Police Brutality Protests
As mass demonstrations against police violence and institutional racism continue, an NYPD-based sitcom following the hijinks of a diverse group…
Investing In Harm Reduction Must Be Included In The Movement To Defund Police
When police respond to 911 calls about people experiencing homelessness or mental health crises, the results can be lethal. As…
2 Lawyers Of Color Face 45-Year Sentences — For Vandalism
In a high school English assignment in which students were asked to describe themselves as a metaphor, Colinford King Mattis…
The Real Looters Of The Bronx
BRONX, N.Y. — Last Friday a few dozen protesters gathered at a busy intersection near the northern tip of New…
Juneteenth Brings Anti-Racism Protesters Out From Coast To Coast
Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19, marks the day enslaved African Americans in Texas learned of their emancipation in 1865.…
Louisville Officer Is Being Fired 3 Months After Fatally Shooting Breonna Taylor
One of the Louisville Metro Police officers who killed Breonna Taylor is being fired, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said Friday.…
Trevor Noah Shows Why Donald Trump’s Heart Isn’t In Police Reform
President Donald Trump’s executive order Tuesday addressing police brutality didn’t impress Trevor Noah. Not by a long shot. (See the…
Celebrating Juneteenth Amid Protests And The Pandemic
Amid nationwide protests against police brutality and racism, the effort to celebrate and recognize Juneteenth has gained strength. Source link
Former Atlanta Cop Charged With Murder In Death Of Rayshard Brooks
The Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks, a Black man, has been charged with felony murder. Fulton County…
Celebrate Juneteenth With HuffPost And Verizon Media
Amid a sustained wave of protests and conversations around police violence, white supremacy and anti-racism, Juneteenth ― the day celebrating…
NYPD To Reassign 600 ‘Anti-Crime’ Plainclothes Officers Amid Protests
New York City’s police department will transition the roughly 600 plainclothes officers that make up its “anti-crime” units into other…
Trump On Police Chokeholds: ‘Concept’ Is ‘Innocent, So Perfect,’ But Should Be Ended
President Donald Trump expressed his confusing feelings about the use of chokeholds during arrests by police officers around the country,…
Anti-Racism Protests Held Coast To Coast Across U.S.
Protests against systemic racism and police brutality continued across the nation on Friday, the 18th day since George Floyd, a…
Most Americans Want Police Reform But Don’t Back ‘Defund The Police’
A near-universal majority of Americans support at least some changes to policing in the United States following the death of…
How Hollywood Has Shaped Our Understanding Of Police
After days of impassioned demonstrations across the world, Hollywood’s propensity for valiant police depictions is facing its own reckoning. The…
The Black Lives Matter Protests Are Working. Here’s Proof.
In the weeks since police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, nonstop protests across the U.S. have called out systemic racism…
George Floyd Was Killed In America. His Death Has Sparked A Global Movement.
When Mazbou Q. saw the video of George Floyd being killed by an American police officer in broad daylight, he…
Black Man Told Oklahoma Police ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Before He Died, Video Shows
A Black man in Oklahoma City died last year after stating repeatedly that he couldn’t breathe while being held in…
Breonna Taylor Was Killed By Police. Their Report Lists Her Injuries As ‘None.’
Police in Louisville, Kentucky, where Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot on March 13, have released their…
Why A D.C. Catholic Priest Organized A ‘Prayerful Protest’ For Black Lives
As protestors poured into Washington to demonstrate against racism last week, Rev. Cornelius Kelechi Ejiogu, one of the city’s Roman…
The Reckoning Over Workplace Racism Has Begun
As anger over racism builds in the U.S., a familiar pattern is unfolding: the culling of the bad apples. Like…
Police Violence Videos Thwarting Officers Attempts To Control Narrative
Minneapolis police initially told the public that George Floyd died after a “medical incident during a police interaction.” The Buffalo,…
‘He’s Gonna Change The World’: George Floyd’s Family Remembers The Man They Lost
The world knows the 46-year-old Black man who was killed last month by a Minneapolis police officer as George Floyd.…
Trevor Noah Shreds Trump’s ‘99%’ Of Police Are ‘Great People’ Line
Trevor Noah zinged President Donald Trump on Tuesday for saying nearly all cops are “great people.” (Watch the video above.)…
White House Doubles Down On Trump’s Smear Against Protester Shoved By Police
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday defended President Donald Trump’s tweet that falsely accused a 75-year-old anti-racism protester…
New York Legislature Votes To Repeal Law Shielding Police Disciplinary Records
New York lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that will enable police officers’ disciplinary records to be made public, the latest…
Florida officer charged with punching intoxicated man
Two Florida police officers are facing charges after video showed one of them slapping and then repeatedly punching an intoxicated…
Trevor Noah Shames Police Brutality With 1 Brutal Observation
On “The Daily Show,” the host noted that some police forces are using the anti-terror military arsenal they stockpiled after…