#BlackLivesMatter

Read the latest news on the Black Lives Matter movement and breaking news on racial injustice.

There is growing outrage in Austin, Minnesota after cops killed Kokou Christopher Fiafonou, an African immigrant, who was possibly suffering a mental health crisis when he was shot. His loved ones say he was "innocent."

Many of those who were once young organizers are now of advanced age, some spending substantial portions of their lives as political prisoners.  

Civil Rights & Social Justice

A Texas grand jury has decided against criminally charging a cop who killed Damian Daniels, a Black military veteran in mental distress, despite the availability of other, non-lethal methods that could have de-escalated what became a fatal encounter.

Race Matters

McDonald's is set to pay $33.5 million to Herb Washington, a Black owner of multiple Mickey D's franchises, to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of systemically giving white owners more opportunity to buy restaurants in affluent neighborhoods.

Crime

Washington University in St. Louis is the latest college to experience racism on its campus, this time in the form of vandalism on a prominent mural depicting historic Black icons that was defaced with symbols of white supremacy.

The Senate left families and democracy in limbo but managed to reward one of the country’s worst mayors of the modern era.

Russell "Maroon" Shoatz, a former Black Liberation Army soldier former member of the Black Panthers who became a prominent and influential prison abolitionist while behind bars for more than two decades in solitary confinement during a nearly 50-year prison sentence, has died

Former police officer Kim Potter testified in her own defense and appeared to cry when discussing her killing of Daunte Wright. However, her dry eyes suggested she was simply shedding "white tears" to angle for an acquittal.

An autopsy performed on Glenn Foster Jr., who was found dead in an Alabama jail earlier this month, suggests that the former professional football player may have been strangled or suffered some other trauma to his neck before he died, Ben Crump and his legal team said.

The son of a suspected white supremacist Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet in Louisiana who starred in a home video showing the family repeatedly using the N-word has been revealed to be anti-mask amid reports his disgraced mother has stepped away from the bench -- but not resigned. 

Meet Miriam Zinter: The Black woman who could pass for white with her fair skin, blonde, wavy hair and blue eyes. Zinter is usually faced with uncomfortable comments from white people who don't realize she's actually Black.

Pioneering soul singer Sam Cooke, also dubbed the “King Of Soul,” was murdered under curious circumstances on December 11, 1964 -- a case which remains under heavy scrutiny to this day.