• Aunt Jemima brand gets a new name: Pearl Milling Company

    Aunt Jemima brand gets a new name: Pearl Milling Company

    Feb 10, 2021 01:36 AM EST

    ... had updated the logo over the years in an effort to remove the negative stereotypes. But in the cultural reckoning that followed last summer's Black Lives Matter protests, Quaker decided to change the name altogether. Other brands, like Uncle Ben's rice, followed. Quaker said Pearl Milling Company was ...

  • Country singer Morgan Wallen suspended from label after racial slur

    Country singer Morgan Wallen suspended from label after racial slur

    Feb 03, 2021 07:59 PM EST

    ... a music journalist who has written about Wallen, said the country music industry has experienced a reckoning in the last eight months prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement that has had an effect on the industry's reaction to Wallen's words. “I feel like it set a trip ...

  • Canada designates the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity

    Canada designates the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity

    Feb 03, 2021 07:27 PM EST

    “The group and its members have openly encouraged, planned, and conducted violent activities against those they perceive to be opposed to their ideology and political beliefs,” the Canadian government said in briefing materials. “The group regularly attends Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests as counter-protesters, often engaging in violence ...

  • Activists worry about broader law enforcement after Capitol riot

    Activists worry about broader law enforcement after Capitol riot

    Feb 03, 2021 05:15 PM EST

    ... during his involvement with the Montgomery bus boycott. In the last decade, as protests swept the U.S. after the police killings of Black people, Black Lives Matter grew in prominence as a slogan and an organization. The FBI at one point created a domestic threat category called “Black Identity ...

  • How Congress is addressing the Jan. 6 insurrection

    How Congress is addressing the Jan. 6 insurrection

    Jan 31, 2021 10:44 PM EST

    ... the Capitol Police were completely caught flat footed.  Ryan Goodman: It's an incredible failure in so many different levels. The FBI and DHS did not issue what would be a routine threat assessment. They produce those kinds of threat assessments for George Floyd, protests like Black Lives Matter protests.

  • How zoning can restrict, or even prevent, affordable housing

    How zoning can restrict, or even prevent, affordable housing

    Jan 30, 2021 10:09 PM EST

    After the events of this past summer, particularly with the Black Lives Matter movement, zoning has become part and parcel of the discussion as it relates to systemic racism and the exclusion of groups of people. Do you think that that is warranted? And part of the conversation? Brenda Kupchick ...

  • Federal conspiracy charges for 2 Proud Boys in Capitol riot

    Federal conspiracy charges for 2 Proud Boys in Capitol riot

    Jan 30, 2021 09:00 PM EST

    ... groups that showed up at some protests last summer.Shortly before the Capitol riot, the Proud Boys' leader, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, was arrested in Washington and ordered to stay out of the city after being accused of vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church in December.

  • Police tighten Congress security in era of rising threats

    Police tighten Congress security in era of rising threats

    Jan 29, 2021 10:49 PM EST

    Greene responded with a tweet of her own, saying: "She is lying to you. She berated me." Greene also called Bush, who is Black, "the leader of the St. Louis Black Lives Matter terrorist mob who trespassed into a gated neighborhood to threaten the lives of the McCloskey's." Last ...

  • Amazon doesn’t have to restore Parler web service, judge says

    Amazon doesn’t have to restore Parler web service, judge says

    Jan 21, 2021 09:39 PM EST

    ... the past several weeks. They included explicit calls to harm high-profile political and business leaders and broader groups of people, such as schoolteachers and Black Lives Matter activists. WATCH: Symbols of hate, and their racial implications Google and Apple were the first tech giants to take action against Parler ...

  • Biden repudiates white supremacy, calls for racial justice in inaugural speech

    Biden repudiates white supremacy, calls for racial justice in inaugural speech

    Jan 20, 2021 11:49 PM EST

    ... the eradication of white supremacy," said Patrisse Cullors, co-founder and executive director of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. "We must heal from anti-Black racism and the heavy health and economic impacts from COVID-19," Cullors said in a statement. "Then, we can focus on thriving Black lives ...