• Thousands to walk off job to protest racial inequality

    Thousands to walk off job to protest racial inequality

    Jul 20, 2020 01:14 PM EST

    ... McDonald’s, if you really believe Black lives matter, it’s time to stop with the lip service and start with real action: treat your Black employees like our lives matter,” said Faith Booker, a Black plaintiff in the lawsuit who also plans to join strikers on Monday.In a ...

  • Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses

    Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses

    Jul 19, 2020 04:07 PM EST

    "Of course I do,” he said, adding his usual refrain that “whites are also killed, too.” He said he was “not offended either by Black Lives Matter,” but defended the Confederate flag, a symbol of the racism of the past, and said those who “proudly have their Confederate flags ...

  • John Lewis ‘was prepared to die’ for freedom long ago, say friends

    John Lewis ‘was prepared to die’ for freedom long ago, say friends

    Jul 18, 2020 09:41 PM EST

    ... re not going to get anything done. That was his history. He knew that as a matter of history, and he knew that as a matter reality. So I think that if he were giving a message over and over again to the Black Lives Matter movement and to the ...

  • Remembering the life and legacy of John Lewis

    Remembering the life and legacy of John Lewis

    Jul 18, 2020 09:27 PM EST

    ... was diagnosed with stage four cancer last December but continued to work, to vote in the House of Representatives and to speak out as the Black Lives Matter movement and protests began this spring. In early June, Lewis visited the newly-named Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C ...

  • ‘Hood Feminism’ makes a case for women ignored by the movement

    ‘Hood Feminism’ makes a case for women ignored by the movement

    Jul 18, 2020 09:21 PM EST

    ... has largely ignored women of color. ... Hari Sreenivasan: As we reflect on John Lewis’ Civil Rights legacy amid the on-going demonstrations in support of Black Lives Matter, author Mikki Kendall says it’s also time for a moment of reckoning for modern-day feminism. Her book “Hood Feminism: Notes ...

  • Voters to get say in dropping 'plantations' from R.I.'s name

    Voters to get say in dropping 'plantations' from R.I.'s name

    Jul 17, 2020 02:36 PM EST

    ... more than 10,000 Rhode Islanders showing up in a pandemic for a march calling for an end to police brutality and to affirm that Black Lives Matter, we can take this ugly, painful word out of the name of our beautiful state,” state Rep. Anastasia Williams, D-Providence, said ...

  • Black U.K. protester statue removed from pedestal in Bristol

    Black U.K. protester statue removed from pedestal in Bristol

    Jul 16, 2020 01:31 PM EST

    BRISTOL, England (AP) — Officials in the English city of Bristol on Thursday removed a statue of a Black Lives Matter activist that was installed on a pedestal once occupied by a monument to a 17th-century slave trader. Artist Marc Quinn created the resin and steel likeness of Jen Reid ...

  • Statue of Black protester replaces toppled U.K. slave trader

    Statue of Black protester replaces toppled U.K. slave trader

    Jul 15, 2020 04:02 PM EST

    LONDON (AP) — An artist has erected a statue of a Black Lives Matter protester atop the plinth in the English city of Bristol formerly occupied by a statue of a slave trader. Marc Quinn created the life-size resin and steel likeness of Jen Reid, a protester photographed standing on ...

  • How the 1st Black head of a major publishing house wants to change the industry

    How the 1st Black head of a major publishing house wants to change the industry

    Jul 14, 2020 10:25 PM EST

    ... those experiences and figure out how we can solve it. Jeffery Brown: Many cultural institutions, of course, are now reexamining themselves in light of the Black Lives Matter protest. In what specific ways -- publishing has long been seen as an insular and largely white in its makeup as an industry ...

  • Michael B. Jordan is bringing diverse stories to the drive-in

    Michael B. Jordan is bringing diverse stories to the drive-in

    Jul 14, 2020 07:55 PM EST

    NEW YORK — For Michael B. Jordan, timing is everything. So when the SAG award winner marched in a Los Angeles Black Lives Matter protest last month demanding that Hollywood drastically increase its diversity in the executive ranks, it was a moment he felt prepared for. I think it’s always ...