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More demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality are scheduled Sunday despite a National Weather Service forecast of triple-digit temperatures in some parts of the Southland and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The nationwide movement sparked by the Memorial Day death of George Floyd in Minneapolis continues more than six weeks after he was killed while in police custody and now…

Democrats and Republicans in Congress have introduced legislation to reform policing in America, but they diverge on some issues

Marc H. Morial is president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, the nation’s largest historic civil rights and urban advocacy organization. Morial has championed equality, youth initiatives and economic empowerment programs as NUL president. The New Orleans native served as mayor of his hometown from 1994 to 2002 and ushered in a renaissance for the city. Morial…

Fatima Goss Graves is president and chief executive officer at the National Women’s Law Center. She’s also a co-founder of the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund. Goss Graves clerked for a federal judge before embarking on a career promoting the rights of women and girls. She’s worked on the American Law Institute Project on Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct on Campus...

Top Pentagon leaders have told Congress that reports of Russia offering Taliban militants bounties for killing Americans were not corroborated by defense intelligence agencies

The Minneapolis officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck before he died told him, “it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk” after Floyd pleaded for air more than 20 times.

Previously unheard audio of interviews from the investigation of the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor reveals new details about the events leading to her death, as well as the sympathetic approach investigators took while scrutinizing one of their own.

Nearly 200 players took the field for an 8-minute, 46-second moment of silence to protest racial injustice before Major League Soccer’s return to action Wednesday night.

Prosecutors have filed three felony charges against the man who hit two protesters with his car while driving on a Seattle freeway that was closed for Black Lives Matter demonstrations

A 150-foot tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement is unveiled at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood. Ted Chen reported for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on July 7, 2020.

Activists and towns are left wondering what to do with empty spaces that once honored historic figures tied to racism as statues and monuments fall

Will Smith participated in a recent discussion with Angela Rye and spoke about how he was called racial slurs by the police while growing up in Philadelphia. “I grew up under, you know, Mayor Rizzo. He went from the chief of police to becoming the mayor and he had an iron hand,” the 51-year-old actor said during an episode of On One With Angela Rye. “I’ve...

Proposed federal legislation that would radically transform the nation’s criminal justice system with such changes as eliminating agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the use of surveillance technology was unveiled Tuesday by the Movement for Black Lives

Mookie Betts wasn’t moved by Major League Baseball’s response in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody, and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ newest star has a goal of getting the Black community to love baseball as much as he does. MLB released a statement nine days after the death of Floyd, the Black man who died after...

Brooklyn Artist Adrian Brandon is honoring Black lives that ended at the hands of police with a series of unfinished portraits. Brandon only colors his sketches for as many minutes as his subjects were alive, leaving partially-completed portraits that represent lives cut short. The subjects of his “Stolen” series include George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean and 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones,...

A former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd has been released from jail.

Authorities have arrested two more people on suspicion of arson in the burning of an Atlanta Wendy’s restaurant where a police officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks.

Police in Aurora, Colorado, say one of the police officers investigated over photographs connected with the death of Elijah McClain has resigned

Christy Lopez of the Georgetown Law Center says the call to defund the police is about realigning resources to people who may not have a badge and a gun — but who play a different role in keeping communities safe. That could include the people behind mental health services and other community resources. But she said calls to simply cut...