black lives matter

The Civilian Complaint Review Board received hundreds of complaints amid violent protests across the city following the killing of George Floyd.

A former SDG&E worker who was fired after allegedly making a racist hand gesture that was posted on social media is being featured in an HBO Max documentary produced by Monica Lewinsky about cancel culture

Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family back the Black Lives Matter movement, one of her senior representatives has said in a television interview to be broadcast later Friday.

Henry Tarrio, known to the far-right Proud Boys as “Enrique,” was arrested in January and sentenced to 155 days on Monday.

The leader of the far-right Proud Boys was sentenced Monday to more than five months in jail after admitting that he burned a Black Lives Matter banner taken from a historic Black church in Washington during a pro-Trump demonstration in December. Henry Tarrio, known to followers as Enrique, was arrested Jan. 4 in Washington on a warrant stemming from an…

“Lord knows, there’s way more to go,” says activist DeRay McKesson. Since a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri seven years ago, a lot has changed for activists calling for structural change to U.S. policing. McKesson says the technology has improved capabilities to broadcast the movement live, and perceptions have changed about police use of force....

A leader of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys pleaded guilty Monday in the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner taken from a church in downtown D.C.

Five officers have sued the city of Palo Alto, saying it allowed the creation of a Black Lives Matter mural with anti-police images that constituted harassment and discrimination against law enforcement.

Black Lives Matter leaders met with President Joe Biden’s team, and the activist group is disappointed in what they’ve seen so far from the administration

George Floyd’s Nephew Brandon Williams said that “22 and a half years” was not enough after the Derek Chauvin sentencing Friday.

Floyd Family Attorney Ben Crump spoke after former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin received the longest sentence ever for a police officer for murder in the state of Minnesota. “This should not be the exception when a Black person is killed by brutality by the police,” said Crump. “It should be the norm.”

Gianna Floyd, George Floyd’s seven-year-old daughter, delivered her victim impact statement via video during Derek Chauvin’s sentencing hearing Friday. She said “I miss him and I love him” and she “asks about him all the time.”

Nobody is celebrating at least five troubling incidents that have happened in Scripps Ranch within days of one another, reports NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda,

Every Father’s Day, I make it a point to reflect on the promises and lessons that I want my young daughters to learn when they’re older. Much of these reflections have to do with social justice, self-identity and fighting for social justice.

Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, is stepping down as executive director of the movement’s foundation.

Black Lives Matter Plaza will become a permanent art installation. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser made the announcement Thursday about the future of the now-iconic downtown street in front of the White House. It was a move that drew international headlines at the height of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations last summer: Bowser had the words painted in enormous bold...

Tre Seals is the owner of Studio Seals and Vocal Type Co., the last Black-owned font foundry in the country. And the inspiration for his work comes from the very struggle of Black Americans from the early civil rights marches to calls for racial justice occurring today.

With Derek Chauvin convicted of murder in George Floyd’s death, activists and the Floyd family are turning their attention to this summer’s trial for the other three officers involved in his May 2020 arrest

A group of activists gathered outside City Hall Friday after 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was shot and killed by a police officer earlier in the week.

A photojournalist won a settlement in his lawsuit against D.C. police, who he says violated his civil rights by arresting him as he covered a Black Lives Matter protest in August.