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In seven years, BLM has gone from hashtag to global rallying cry. So why has the co-founder stepped away from the movement she helped create?

"Even though I'm a kid, it's important to speak my voice so people can hear me and know they can share their voice too, just like me," the young organizer said.

Cooper argues that we miss the intersection of race and gender when it comes to Black women

Sandra Bland. Her name, her story, and her 2015 death in a Texas jail cell catapulted one Black woman’s experience of racial profiling, police violence, bail, and jailhouse neglect into the national consciousness.

Young men make up the majority of black people killed by police in the US. That’s fed a perception that black women are somehow shielded from the threat of police violence. They aren’t.

Put a copy of your driver’s license, registration, and insurance on the dashboard.” That’s what I tell my guy friends when they make their 300-mile road trip for homecoming. “Stay on the sidewalk and keep out of the alley.” That’s what I tell the boys in the neighborhood as they consider a shortcut to the park. These are survival tactics that Black men and boys have incorporated into their everyday lives. These are precautions to take so that summer play and fall traditions are not compromised by incidents with the police. Black women — mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, and partners — have offered and echoed this advice (and experienced the trauma that comes from giving this advice) for years.

”Enough is enough, we are done dying,” organizer Dawn Chavous told the crowd at City Hall. “That could be us. That could be any one of us.”

Killings took place two weeks apart but neither received national coverage, prompting questions about whose stories are told

Authorities say the influencer died from an accidental overdose, but her family believes this could be another sad example of the dangers women face from men on dating apps

The health worker was shot dead during a police raid and protestors say she too must be remembered.

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The Gone, But Not Forgotten event aims to unite Black women and encourage them to raise their voices. "I want us to learn how to protect each other," organizers said.

As protests draw attention to killings of African-Americans, advocates are demanding more coverage of violent policing in Latino communities.

The repeal of a controversial law means previously secret allegations of misconduct have now been made public

In a three year span, Latinos in California represented 46% of deadly police shootings – second to the rates for African Americans

Virginia's attorney general has directed his civil rights office to investigate a possible "pattern of misconduct" by police in the town of Windsor after officers drew their guns and used pepper spray on a Black uniformed U.S. Army officer during a traffic stop.

Officers and officials also donated to fundraisers for far-right activists and fellow officers accused of shooting black Americans

PHOENIX (AP) — The Tucson, Arizona, police chief on Wednesday offered his resignation two months after a 27-year-old man died while handcuffed and placed face-down, resulting in the resignation of three officers the chief said had violated department policy...

$1.7 billion budget passed 6-1, with Lane Santa Cruz voting against it.

On the spectre of anti-black violence, and raising sons.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Dallas’ Rick Carlisle now starts every interview session by reading from a calendar that highlights something that happened on that day in the country’s racial history...

An off-duty police officer took two women to the ground outside a Tucson restaurant, kneeling on the neck of one. His colleagues investigating the incident made a troubling choice about

Protests over the US police killings of Black people have spread across the US, and worldwide.

Without the proper context, it is impossible to understand the mushroom cloud of uprisings that are exploding across the country in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others.

Trio of former Minneapolis officers found guilty of violating the civil rights of Floyd, murdered by Derek Chauvin in May 2020

Police in Kenosha told armed vigilantes, “We appreciate you guys. We really do.” Then one of them killed two protesters.

Bullets crashed through the walls of Brandy Earthman’s house on Minneapolis’ north side one evening this summer. The shots sheared through the door of the living room where her children were playing. One severed a bone in her 19-year-old son’s arm.

Two sheriff’s deputies in South Carolina were fired on Monday over their involvement in the case of the death of a Black man who had died after he was forcibly…

Our latest coverage of protests against racism and police violence around the world following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2020.