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Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, is stepping down as executive director of the movement’s foundation.

A San Marino man who drove a truck through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Pasadena last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to nearly a dozen federal weapons offenses.

Black Lives Matter Plaza will become a permanent art installation. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser made the announcement Thursday about the future of the now-iconic downtown street in front of the White House. It was a move that drew international headlines at the height of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations last summer: Bowser had the words painted in enormous bold...

The I-team investigates what changes the Black Lives Matter groups want to see happen next. Eric Leonard reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on April 30, 2021. 

Tre Seals is the owner of Studio Seals and Vocal Type Co., the last Black-owned font foundry in the country. And the inspiration for his work comes from the very struggle of Black Americans from the early civil rights marches to calls for racial justice occurring today.

With Derek Chauvin convicted of murder in George Floyd’s death, activists and the Floyd family are turning their attention to this summer’s trial for the other three officers involved in his May 2020 arrest

A group of activists gathered outside City Hall Friday after 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was shot and killed by a police officer earlier in the week.

A photojournalist won a settlement in his lawsuit against D.C. police, who he says violated his civil rights by arresting him as he covered a Black Lives Matter protest in August.

A former president of the organization that hosts the Golden Globes has been dropped from the group’s board after calling Black Lives Matter a “racist hate movement” in an email.

It was a sadly powerful moment in American history. A Minnesota panel of six white and six Black or multi-racial jurors told us Tuesday that the life of a Black man, George Floyd, mattered. And more importantly, they told us his manner of death mattered, even coming under the knee of a white police officer.

The three weeks of the Derek Chauvin trial featured dozens of witnesses and hundreds of pages of evidence. But within all that information, there were a few key moments that ultimately turned the jury to a guilty verdict. NBCLX storyteller Jalyn Henderson breaks them down with the help of NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus gathered to watch the verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin being read.

A federal judge Monday ordered the LAPD to put additional limits on when so-called “less lethal” weapons are used during street demonstrations, directing that the projectile launchers be used by specifically trained officers, after warnings have been issued, and not aimed at the head, neck, face, eyes, or spine.

Biden, who earned a reputation for being tough on crime while in the Senate in the 1990s, faces both political and legal headwinds.

Attorneys representing Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles have again asked a federal judge to restrict, or enjoin, LAPD officers from using certain “less lethal” weapons when trying to control or disperse street protests, citing the city’s own after-action reviews that found some officers’ use of the weapons at demonstrations last summer were improper.

Asian and Black activists are talking solidarity, but they first need to know their common history and acknowledge tensions that have long existed.