• The WNBA is celebrating 25 years of resilience. When will it get equal treatment?

    The WNBA is celebrating 25 years of resilience. When will it get equal treatment?

    May 21, 2021 10:25 PM EST

    ... a united stand against former Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, who co-owns Georgia's Atlanta Dream team and criticized the league's support for the Black Lives Matter movement. To explore the league's successes and hardships, I'm joined by Sue Bird of the champion Seattle Storm. She's ...

  • A look at the US role and reaction to cease-fire in the Middle East

    A look at the US role and reaction to cease-fire in the Middle East

    May 20, 2021 10:55 PM EST

    ... politics in the Democratic Party are not, of course, just shifting on Israel. They're shifting on all sorts of other things, climate change, on Black Lives Matter, on policing, and racial justice. All of those things are tied up into what happened here in the Middle East and the ...

  • A look at the humanitarian crisis wrought by Israel-Hamas war

    A look at the humanitarian crisis wrought by Israel-Hamas war

    May 20, 2021 10:30 PM EST

    ... global struggle, the historical struggle around the world of the indigenous peoples around the world. We share the struggle with our brothers and sisters with Black Lives Matter and those people suffering from systematic and institutional discrimination. John Yang: And now, with a cease-fire, both Gazans and Israelis can ...

  • News Wrap: No charges for sheriffs who shot Andre Brown Jr. in North Carolina

    News Wrap: No charges for sheriffs who shot Andre Brown Jr. in North Carolina

    May 18, 2021 10:50 PM EST

    ... lost key Republican support today. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy came out against establishing an outside commission, unless it also investigates other violence, including during Black Lives Matter protests. Top Democrats and Republicans had sharply different reactions. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: It's my hope that Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy ...

  • GOP Leader McCarthy opposes Jan. 6 commission ahead of vote

    GOP Leader McCarthy opposes Jan. 6 commission ahead of vote

    May 18, 2021 03:20 PM EST

    ... were trying to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's election. McCarthy pushed to have the new commission also investigate other groups, namely the Black Lives Matter groups that protested police violence in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. He said that given the “shortsighted scope that ...

  • Lloyd Price, singer and early rock influence, dies at 88

    Lloyd Price, singer and early rock influence, dies at 88

    May 08, 2021 09:47 PM EST

    ... and manager. He would often speak of the racial injustices he endured, calling his memoir “sumdumhonkey” and writing on his Facebook page during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests that behind his “affable exterior” was “a man who is seething.” Born in Kenner, Louisiana, one of 11 siblings, Price had ...

  • Masks worn on chins, or not at all, at Derby

    Masks worn on chins, or not at all, at Derby

    May 01, 2021 10:38 PM EST

    ... S. The day that Chauvin was convicted, 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was shot and killed by police in Columbus, Ohio. Chanelle Helm, with Black Lives Matter Louisville, said the banner flying above the Derby is designed to highlight police brutality against Black women. Helm noted that Black woman ...

  • Student free speech makes it to the Supreme Court in former high school cheerleader's case

    Student free speech makes it to the Supreme Court in former high school cheerleader's case

    Apr 28, 2021 10:25 PM EST

    ... John Yang: Marcia Coyle is chief Washington correspondent for "The National Law Journal." Marcia Coyle: Justice Clarence Thomas said, well, what about controversial comments about Black Lives Matter, Proud Boys or Antifa? The school district's attorney said that the school district is not teaching students what to think, that ...

  • Floyd's supporters hope to see systemic change emerge from guilty verdict in Chauvin trial

    Floyd's supporters hope to see systemic change emerge from guilty verdict in Chauvin trial

    Apr 20, 2021 10:40 PM EST

    ... in some way to say, we can do better as a nation. Judy Woodruff: Yamiche Alcindor, very close to the White House right now at Black Lives Matter Plaza, just a block or so away from where the White House is. Yamiche, thank you very much. Yamiche Alcindor: Thanks so ...

  • Chauvin found guilty of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd death

    Chauvin found guilty of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd death

    Apr 20, 2021 09:14 PM EST

    ... and strength.” https://youtu.be/HIESyUOuvjo An ecstatic Whitney Lewis leaned halfway out a car window in a growing traffic jam of revelers waving a Black Lives Matter flag. “Justice was served,” the 32-year-old from Minneapolis said. “It means George Floyd can now rest.” Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell, who ...