• A monument to Philadelphia's Black student protesters will go up as another monument comes down

    A monument to Philadelphia's Black student protesters will go up as another monument comes down

    Jul 27, 2020 11:25 PM EST

    ... Hall and the Rizzo statue, past the old Board of Education building and out to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, chanting “I can’t breathe” and “Black Lives Matter.” Her cries were echoed by tens of thousands of others who felt the same way. Suddenly, all that history she’d studied ...

  • News Wrap: Final stage of COVID-19 vaccine trial begins

    News Wrap: Final stage of COVID-19 vaccine trial begins

    Jul 27, 2020 10:55 PM EST

    The body of civil rights icon and Georgia Congressman John Lewis has arrived in Washington for one last time. A motorcade carried his casket into the city today, stopping at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House. Later ...

  • Seattle mayor calls Trump's response to protests 'un-American'

    Seattle mayor calls Trump's response to protests 'un-American'

    Jul 27, 2020 10:45 PM EST

    ... federal courthouse. The building has become a rallying point for protests against police violence. Man: I just came here to try to hold the people who are supposed to be keeping us safe accountable for their atrocious actions that they have been committing on the city. Protesters: Black lives matter!

  • WATCH: Barr defends aggressive federal response to protests

    WATCH: Barr defends aggressive federal response to protests

    Jul 27, 2020 09:39 PM EST

    ... abetted” Trump’s worst impulses and excoriated him and the Justice Department for turning a blind eye to necessary reforms to police departments, for dismissing Black Lives Matter protests and for flooding streets with federal agents to stop protesters. Under combative questioning, Barr acerbically defended himself but revealed little new ...

  • WATCH: Rep. John Lewis lies in state at the U.S. Capitol — Tuesday, July 28

    WATCH: Rep. John Lewis lies in state at the U.S. Capitol — Tuesday, July 28

    Jul 27, 2020 09:37 PM EST

    ... Pelosi, who counted Lewis as a close friend, met his casket earlier Monday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, and Lewis's motorcade stopped at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House as it wound through Washington before arriving at the Capitol. The Democratic speaker noted Lewis, frail with ...

  • WATCH: Congressional leaders pay respects to Rep. John Lewis

    WATCH: Congressional leaders pay respects to Rep. John Lewis

    Jul 27, 2020 12:27 PM EST

    ... the latest in a series of public remembrances. Pelosi met his casket earlier Monday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, and Lewis' motorcade stopped at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House as it wound through Washington before arriving at the Capitol. Pelosi noted that Lewis, frail with cancer ...

  • Without a convention, how do Dems plan to rally voters?

    Without a convention, how do Dems plan to rally voters?

    Jul 26, 2020 09:20 PM EST

    There were Black Lives Matter protests in at least forty six different communities in Wisconsin, in large cities like Milwaukee and Madison, and in small towns, sometimes with just a few thousand people. There are so many people, when we talk to them right now who say that they see ...

  • Protests in Portland grow to 'many thousands' as police and federal forces converge in the city

    Protests in Portland grow to 'many thousands' as police and federal forces converge in the city

    Jul 26, 2020 09:18 PM EST

    Jonathan Levinson: I don't think the focus has ever shifted away from racial justice and Black Lives Matter with a particular emphasis on defunding the police, towards that end. I think in the past few days, one thing that has changed and what a couple of people told me ...

  • Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge

    Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge

    Jul 26, 2020 08:11 PM EST

    ... good came from it.”“John was willing to sacrifice life so we can have the freedom to vote,” said Edna Goldsmith, who was wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt. “We want to see him off with a bang.” Lewis left his family’s farm in Pike County, Alabama, in the ...

  • Competing protesters converge on Breonna Taylor’s hometown

    Competing protesters converge on Breonna Taylor’s hometown

    Jul 25, 2020 11:11 PM EST

    ... are not going to stand for this anymore.” The only confrontation among the competing groups appeared to occur earlier Saturday when white militia members and Black Lives Matter activists yelled at each other over the police barricades.Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office is heading an investigation into Taylor ...