• Fact-checking misinformation about the Los Angeles protests

    Fact-checking misinformation about the Los Angeles protests

    Jun 12, 2025 03:51 PM EST

    ... a police car engulfed in flames. But the video dates to 2020, when people rallied against police brutality after the May 25, 2020, murder of George Floyd, a Black man, while in police custody. Another video, shared June 8, showed a row of military vehicles driving down a street. Some ...

  • May 25, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    May 25, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    May 25, 2025 11:43 PM EST

    Sunday on PBS News Weekend, five years after the murder of George Floyd, his family’s fight for racial justice and police reform goes on. The environmental impact of data centers at the heart of the AI industry. Tensions in the South China Sea mount as Chinese and Philippine vessels ...

  • WATCH: Trump delivers commencement speech to West Point graduating class of 2025

    WATCH: Trump delivers commencement speech to West Point graduating class of 2025

    May 24, 2025 05:03 PM EST

    ... who fought a war over slavery during his remarks, which came as the nation was reckoning with its history on race after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Trump also paid tribute to the military academy’s history and its famed graduates, including Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

  • How the DOJ under Trump is targeting his perceived political adversaries

    How the DOJ under Trump is targeting his perceived political adversaries

    May 21, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    William Brangham: Right, another extraordinary case in the department. Thirdly, the Department of Justice is also going to drop these police reform agreements -- they're known as consent decrees -- in Minneapolis and Louisville. These are consent decrees that were signed after investigations into the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna ...

  • Justice Department moves to cancel Minneapolis and Louisville police reform settlements

    Justice Department moves to cancel Minneapolis and Louisville police reform settlements

    May 21, 2025 04:09 PM EST

    The Justice Department announced its decision just before the five-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. Then-officer Derek Chauvin used his knee on May 25, 2020, to pin the Black man to the pavement for 9 1/2 minutes in a case that sparked protests around the ...

  • The largely forgotten history of Philadelphia’s police bombing of Black organization MOVE

    The largely forgotten history of Philadelphia’s police bombing of Black organization MOVE

    May 17, 2025 09:35 PM EST

    ... a lot of trauma for a lot of people. Black people were killed by law enforcement. And, you know, if you saw what happened to George Floyd, and at a certain point, you're tired of hearing about the people that were getting killed by these police officers. Ali Rogin ...

  • Dozens of deaths in police custody were misclassified in autopsies, Maryland officials say

    Dozens of deaths in police custody were misclassified in autopsies, Maryland officials say

    May 15, 2025 11:07 PM EST

    ... announced Thursday following a comprehensive review of such cases spurred by widespread concerns about the former state medical examiner’s testimony in the death of George Floyd. Medical examiners under Dr. David Fowler displayed racial and pro-police bias, according to the review. They were “especially unlikely to classify a ...

  • Civil rights lawsuit filed over killing of U.S. Airman Roger Fortson by Florida deputy

    Civil rights lawsuit filed over killing of U.S. Airman Roger Fortson by Florida deputy

    May 06, 2025 09:57 PM EST

    “This is not policing. This is an unlawful execution,” said Crump, a civil rights attorney who has been involved in a number of cases involving law enforcement killings of Black people, including those of Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols and George Floyd. “We believe Roger’s death was ...

  • New book 'Personhood' examines escalating battle over reproductive rights

    New book 'Personhood' examines escalating battle over reproductive rights

    May 05, 2025 10:25 PM EST

    You write about how the early fetal personhood movement aligned itself with civil rights movements and how there was a group called Students for Life that actually held what they called a Black Preborn Lives Matter rally during the anti-racism protest after George Floyd's murder. Has fetal personhood ...

  • Exploring the efforts to control how U.S. history is presented in museums and monuments

    Exploring the efforts to control how U.S. history is presented in museums and monuments

    May 01, 2025 10:25 PM EST

    ... indoctrinate our children. Jeffrey Brown: July 4, 2020, Donald Trump at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, a fiery response to protests following the murder of George Floyd, as monuments were defaced and torn down amid a renewed reckoning with the uglier sides of American history. The president pointed to a ...