The wild takeover occurred despite the best efforts of newly installed commission President Teresa Sánchez-Gordon to regain ...

Chicago city leaders are recommending an $875,000 settlement to a group of protestors from the 2020 Black Lives Matter ...

The city of Saratoga Springs has signed an agreement with the New York state attorney general’s office to resolve complaints ...

A federal case in Oklahoma is testing both the legal system and public trust in high-profile activism, after prosecutors ...

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Protesters in Pittsburgh in 2016 hold a Black Lives Matters sign and chant “What do we want?” “Justice.” When do we want it?” “Now.” (Photo by J.L. Martello) Black Lives Matter (BLM) began in 2013 as ...

A St. Paul, Minn., police sergeant who made a Facebook comment encouraging drivers to run over Black Lives Matter protesters and telling them how to avoid being charged while doing so resigned ...

The man who drove his gas tanker into a crowd of peaceful protesters on a closed-down Minneapolis interstate in May has been charged with two felonies. Vechirko claims he didn’t intend to drive into ...

A statue of a Confederate general torn down by protesters during the 2020 nationwide Black Lives Matter unrest is back up in Washington, D.C. The statue of Albert Pike was restored and reinstalled in ...

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Twelve former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents who were fired after kneeling during a 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Washington, D.C., are now suing the agency in an attempt to ...

A Shreveport, La., dental clinic violated federal law by placing a Black employee on unpaid leave and later firing her for ...