Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Who, if anyone, is leading the emerging movement around the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner...
LISA LEFF, Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Stop. Hey, what’s that sound? Protest songs are taking their place alongside chants of “I can’t breathe” and...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A gathering of black congressional staffers and other Capitol employees stood silently on the House steps Thursday and raised...
TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Recent protests against the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have created a conundrum for...
(Texas Public Radio) – The tragic deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown at the hands of police, and the subsequent grand jury decisions, have...
JOSEPH WHITE, AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The first major “I Can’t Breathe” protest from college sports would naturally come from Georgetown, where societal statements...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press KRISTIN J. BENDER, Associated Press Jorge “Jinho” Ferreira feels the tension between being black and carrying a badge every day as...
(Mashable) – Medical students staged so-called “die-ins” in universities across the U.S. on Wednesday as demonstrations on race issues in America continued. The students aimed...
BERKELEY, Calif. (New York Times) — This is the college town where the Free Speech Movement was born 50 years ago, spreading across the nation with...
KRISTIN J. BENDER, Associated Press PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of people marched through Berkeley for a third night a row, blocking...
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and multiple Brooklyn players wore “I Can’t Breathe” shirts while they warmed up...
(BET) – Barack Obama – not the president, but the man – has a dream: his children will be viewed as individuals and judged not by the...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — As crowds of people staged “die-ins” across the country last week to protest the deaths of unarmed black men at the...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “I can’t believe that in the 21st century in the United States of America, we can’t get a simple...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In Tom Wolfe’s best-selling The Bonfire of the Vanities, New York State Chief Judge Sol Wachtler famously said “a...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist An African American friend of mine keeps asking, in utter amazement, how it is not obvious that there was...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” “No Justice, No Peace” “I Can’t Breathe” “Black Lives Matter” Those are the chants...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist “I can’t breathe,” gasped Eric Garner, again and again and again. “I can’t breathe,” he said as several police officers...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist From nearly the moment he was attacked by a New York City police officer July 18, the world has,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is prescribing time and vigilance to tackle problems as entrenched in American society as racism and bias. He also...
Joseph White, ASSOCIATED PRESS LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — A week after their “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” show of solidarity, several St. Louis Rams players made...
Gillian Mohney, ABC NEWS (ABC News)—Two hashtags with stories of alleged racial bias by police have gone viral in the wake of a decision by...
DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands and thousands of diverse people united by anger took to the streets from New York City to...
TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police body cameras have become a rallying cry in the wake of racially charged decisions by grand juries...
JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — He is a white man with a black son, a mayor elected on a campaign centered on mending...
