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Corporate Americas $50 billion promise to confront racial justice shows limits of power to catalyze change

August 26, 2021

After the murder of George Floyd ignited nationwide protests, corporate America acknowledged it could no longer stay silent and promised to take an active role in confronting systemic racism.

George Floyds family gathers in Minneapolis to mark one year since his death

May 25, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS - Members of George Floyds family took to the streets Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of his death, marching with hundreds of people, including activists and others who have lost loved ones to the hands of police, in the first of multiple events planned across the country to remember him and rally for racial justice.

How Black Lives Matter changed the U.S. debate on the Mideast

SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2021

WASHINGTON - Black Lives Matter activists recently took to the streets of Indianapolis to protest for Palestinians. In Congress, a lawmaker who cut her teeth as a Black Lives Matter organizer and who has compared her clashes with police to those faced by Palestinians tweeted Friday, "A cease-fire ends the bombardment - not the violence."

Biden says guilty verdict in Floyd murder offers a chance at reform

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021

WASHINGTON - Almost immediately after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd late Tuesday afternoon, President Joe Biden was on the phone from the Oval Office, eager to talk to Floyds family.

Verdict heard around the world: Global reactions to the George Floyd case

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021

The conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd resonated globally, with foreign dignitaries and community leaders reacting to a verdict that revived calls for an international reckoning on racial inequality in justice systems around the world.

Chauvin convicted of murder and manslaughter in death of George Floyd

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2021

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd on Memorial Day.

Protest art covered shuttered businesses for months at Washington's Black Lives Matter Plaza. Now it has a new home.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2021

WASHINGTON - Months spent in the sun and rain has warped the wooden works of art. They've been tagged and scrawled on, disassembled and pulled down from the windows that sat boarded up for months.

Activists remove and save art on fence near Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2021

WASHINGTON - The self-appointed guardians of the fence that separates Black Lives Matter Plaza in the District of Columbia from the federal parkland of Lafayette Square and the White House grounds gathered once again in the street Saturday as the sun rose.

Black Lives Matter sees divided stance on Biden

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 02, 2020

Activist John Sloan III saw the swell of White faces in Black Lives Matter protests after the killing of George Floyd in June and girded for the worst.

Former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death seeks to bar evidence of past neck and body restraints

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS - The sound of gunfire has become so familiar across North Minneapolis that Cathy Spann worries she has grown numb to it.

Kentucky's only Black female legislator arrested on felony rioting charge at Breonna Taylor protest

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

As the only Black female representative in the Kentucky Capitol, Democratic state Rep. Attica Scott took action after the death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police raiding her home in March.

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