• 3 MLB games postponed, players decide after Kenosha shooting

    3 MLB games postponed, players decide after Kenosha shooting

    Aug 27, 2020 04:06 AM EST

    ... white sport, took a knee for the national anthem for the first time this season. New York pitcher Robert Gsellman, who is white, wore a Black Lives Matter T-shirt instead of a uniform as he watched from the stands behind the dugout.Heyward, who is also Black, was removed ...

  • NBA playoff games called off amid player protest, reverberates through other leagues

    NBA playoff games called off amid player protest, reverberates through other leagues

    Aug 27, 2020 12:39 AM EST

    ... a statement. Demanding societal change and ending racial injustice has been a major part of the NBA's restart at Walt Disney World. The phrase "Black Lives Matter" is painted on the arena courts, players are wearing messages urging change on their jerseys and coaches are donning pins demanding racial ...

  • Melania Trump steps into the spotlight, White House doubles as convention stage on RNC Night 2

    Melania Trump steps into the spotlight, White House doubles as convention stage on RNC Night 2

    Aug 26, 2020 06:50 PM EST

    As criminal justice reform increasingly becomes a bipartisan cause, the pardon served as an opportunity for Trump to appeal to a broader swath of voters and soften the image he has projected in recent months with his “law and order” rhetoric promoting harsh treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters. Speakers ...

  • WATCH: Kenosha sheriff gives update on overnight shooting, after 2 are killed at protest

    WATCH: Kenosha sheriff gives update on overnight shooting, after 2 are killed at protest

    Aug 26, 2020 06:21 PM EST

    “We were all chanting ‘Black lives matter’ at the gas station and then we heard, boom, boom, and I told my friend, `‘That’s not fireworks,’” 19-year-old protester Devin Scott told the Chicago Tribune. “And then this guy with this huge gun runs by us in the ...

  • Decades later, Al Sharpton still insists: No justice, no peace

    Decades later, Al Sharpton still insists: No justice, no peace

    Aug 26, 2020 03:56 PM EST

    ... to a line of people that stretches up 145th Street, part of an ongoing coronavirus pandemic relief effort. Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, a Black man whose chokehold death by NYPD in 2014 fueled Black Lives Matter protests in New York and across the country, is a regular at ...

  • 3 shot, 2 killed in 3rd night of unrest over Blake shooting

    3 shot, 2 killed in 3rd night of unrest over Blake shooting

    Aug 26, 2020 01:23 PM EST

    ... of damage and destruction.”Anger over the shooting has spilled into the streets of other cities, including Los Angeles and Minneapolis, the epicenter of the Black Lives Matter movement this summer following Floyd's death. Bauer reported from Madison, Wisconsin. Associated Press reporters Todd Richmond in Madison, Wisconsin, Jeff Baenen ...

  • What to expect from Night 2 of the RNC

    What to expect from Night 2 of the RNC

    Aug 25, 2020 10:53 PM EST

    ... is the case now. Lastly, I want to turn to Patricia McCloskey. She's one-half of that Saint Louis couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters when they were walking through her neighborhood. And she said -- quote -- "Democrats want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single ...

  • ‘Cancel culture’ debate bubbles up in politics and beyond

    ‘Cancel culture’ debate bubbles up in politics and beyond

    Aug 25, 2020 10:23 PM EST

    ... his job. Another case, the resignation of the leadership of the Poetry Foundation after what many on Twitter found a too tepid response to the Black Lives Matter protests, examples, among others, he says, of demands for ideological conformity and canceling on the left. Thomas Chatterton Williams: So, what we ...

  • WATCH: Jacob Blake not likely to walk again after police shooting, lawyer Crump says

    WATCH: Jacob Blake not likely to walk again after police shooting, lawyer Crump says

    Aug 25, 2020 09:33 PM EST

    ... has spilled into the streets of Kenosha and other cities, including Los Angeles, Wisconsin's capital of Madison and in Minneapolis, the epicenter of the Black Lives Matter movement this summer following Floyd's death. Hundreds of protesters defied an 8 p.m. curfew Monday night, massing in downtown Kenosha ...

  • Republicans try to show diversity while warning against 'horror film' of Democratic leadership on RNC Night 1

    Republicans try to show diversity while warning against 'horror film' of Democratic leadership on RNC Night 1

    Aug 25, 2020 05:44 PM EST

    ... Patricia McCloskey highlight the party culture war https://youtu.be/QIL4dft8VNw The St. Louis couple who garnered national media attention when they pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their home has since faced criminal charges for their actions, but have remained resolute, citing their Second Amendment rights in ...