• Online right-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric during Pride Month

    Online right-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric during Pride Month

    Jun 13, 2022 11:15 PM EST

    In the same way that it mobilized against Black Lives Matter in the nation's capital in December, the Patriot Front harnesses what’s in the news cycle — in this case, drag queen story hours, disputes about transgender people in schools, and LGBTQ visibility more broadly. A “massive right-wing ...

  • How race played a role in the Capitol insurrection

    How race played a role in the Capitol insurrection

    Jun 11, 2022 09:35 PM EST

    ... I've also been struck and I'm wonder if, is it random that so many people are apologists for January 6, make comparisons to Black Lives Matter protests? Hakeem Jefferson: I mean, this sort of retelling of history, this recreation of narrative is not new in American life, right ...

  • Proud Boys leader, members charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol insurrection

    Proud Boys leader, members charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol insurrection

    Jun 06, 2022 08:19 PM EST

    ... C., when the riot erupted on Jan. 6, 2021. Police arrested Tarrio in Washington two days before the riot and charged him with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December 2020. Tarrio was released from jail on Jan. 14 after serving ...

  • Retired Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski reflects on his long, illustrious career

    Retired Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski reflects on his long, illustrious career

    May 31, 2022 10:25 PM EST

    Mike Krzyzewski: Black lives matter. We should be saying it every day. It's not political. This is not a political statement. It's a human rights statement. Judy Woodruff: Do you think college sports have done as much as it could have to address systemic racism? We all agree ...

  • Former Proud Boys leader to remain jailed until Capitol riot trial

    Former Proud Boys leader to remain jailed until Capitol riot trial

    May 28, 2022 05:36 PM EST

    ... when the insurrection took place. Police had arrested Tarrio in the District of Columbia two days before the riot and charged him with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December 2020. A judge ordered Tarrio to stay out of the nation ...

  • Buffalo mass shooting opens longstanding wounds of Black trauma and neglect

    Buffalo mass shooting opens longstanding wounds of Black trauma and neglect

    May 22, 2022 06:06 PM EST

    ... up the pieces without any bigger support.” The supermarket shooting has also drawn support for the activists from around the nation. On Saturday, organizers with Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a national collective of chapters, held a vigil for Buffalo. Organizers from Boston, Detroit, Virginia Beach, Virginia and Minneapolis attended and ...

  • Former presidential adviser David Gergen discusses leadership and the next generation

    Former presidential adviser David Gergen discusses leadership and the next generation

    May 13, 2022 10:35 PM EST

    ... another stream I want to mention, Judy, which is less noticed. And that is people of color, who are -- I think are coming together, especially Black women. They have taken the moral high ground, and they -- with the MeToo movement and Black Lives Matter. I don't agree with their ...

  • 'I'm just getting started': Musician Jon Batiste on the next phase of his musical journey

    'I'm just getting started': Musician Jon Batiste on the next phase of his musical journey

    May 09, 2022 10:25 PM EST

    And goal at the end of the day is to add value to people's lives by the creations. Jeffrey Brown: That also means taking music into the streets. He is known for impromptu love riots, joyous marches through everyday life. He joined the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests after ...

  • Three decades after Rodney King’s beating, police reform in Los Angeles remains elusive

    Three decades after Rodney King’s beating, police reform in Los Angeles remains elusive

    Apr 29, 2022 10:35 PM EST

    ... t enough change. The political momentum has slowed. The federal legislation stalled. So, while you have seen a huge change in the culture and the Black Lives Matter movement has gone global, but it hasn't touched the DNA of American policing. Stephanie Sy: Have the underlying problems that existed ...

  • Wisconsin Democrats search for strategy to unseat GOP Sen. Ron Johnson

    Wisconsin Democrats search for strategy to unseat GOP Sen. Ron Johnson

    Apr 17, 2022 06:40 PM EST

    ... COVID-19 vaccines. He dismissed climate change as “bull——." He joined the many Republicans who have played down the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, saying he wasn't scared by the insurrectionists but would have been concerned if they had been Black Lives Matter protesters.