Protests
From ICE raids to legal terror, America is replaying Germany’s old script, and Black Americans know what it costs to ignore the signs.
Here are four considerations as mass protests continue to unfold, including planned “No Kings” day actions on June 14, challenging Trump’s escalating repression.
The 9th Circuit court has allowed the Trump administration to keep the National Guard in Los Angeles, restricting control by California governor Gavin Newsom.
Black folks on social are warning Black Americans not to participate in protests against the Trump administration and Elon Musk.
Auma Obama was praised for participating.
The Big Apple has erupted in protests.
Around 200 members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans gathered at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day and were shouted down by more than 100 counterprotesters.
Protests kicked off in Grands Rapids, Michigan, after the Grand Rapids Police Department released a video of an officer shooting a 26-year-old unarmed Black man in the head–the officer has not been charged.
Journalists at Howard University’s student-run newspaper 'The Hilltop' claim they're being censored after coverage of campus protests has declined in the past week.
Eight years after it was founded to honor the lives of Black people globally while advocating for equity across economics, social justice and environmental factors, the Black Lives Matter movement was nominated for a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
Commissioner Dermot Shea gave a troubling rebuke of Black Lives Matter protesters who were met with violence by members of the NYPD on Monday during a march held to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
In the suit, the New York attorney general petitions for the installation of a monitor to oversee the NYPD, and points to repeated instances of violence enacted by the department in response to the demonstrations.