The jury in the trial of Michael Slager, the police officer who shot and killed Walter Scott, says it's deadlocked…
It feels fitting that in a time of the Movement for Black Lives and the last months of the first black president,…
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Ernest Walker has moved his family out of their Ovilla, Texas, home because of racially charged threats he's…
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Yet another Chicago police officer has shot and killed a 19-year-old black teen he says twice pointed a gun at him,…
Black Lives Matter protesters who were arrested in July while demonstrating after the shooting death of Alton…
Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Deters announced Tuesday that he will retry former Police Officer Ray…
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Another young person of color is dead after being shot by two New York City police officers Saturday.
Symone Sanders is a force to be reckoned with, which is why she was named to The Root 100, our annual list of the…
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The St. Anthony, Minn., police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile earlier this year during a traffic stop…
The national leaders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network said Tuesday that their mandate remains unchanged in…
The official autopsy report for Keith Lamont Scott, the black man who was killed by Charlotte, N.C., police in…
It seems as if some white college students still haven't learned that blackface isn't OK.
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Editor’s note: Once a month, this column will tackle broader questions about what the country should do to increase…
Shacara McLaurin, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y., got into a shouting match with an elderly Donald Trump supporter Thursday…
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Michael Beal, 28, brother of the late Joshua Beal, who was shot and killed Saturday by an off-duty Chicago police…
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“Ohio. North Carolina. Florida. My God. This is really happening.”
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The father of one of the Dallas police officers who were killed back in July is reportedly suing Black Lives Matter…
A Baton Rouge, La., police officer who says that he was injured during a protest of a deadly police shooting filed a…
Hours after an off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed a young black man, Blue Lives Matter protesters…
A St. Louis mother is demanding answers after a local news station showed her a photo of a police officer giving a…