Black Lives Matter

Protesters rally and speak out on the one year anniversary of the death of Eric Garner in New York, July 17, 2015. Family and supporters on Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the chokehold death of Eric Garner with rallies and vigils demanding police reforms and justice in the controversial case. Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters

WATCH: Eric Garner’s mother, Al Sharpton testify about policing practices

By Laura Santhanam

Muhiyidin Moye D'Baha of the Black Lives Matter movement, addresses the North Charleston city council demanding a citizen review board in North Charleston, South Carolina April 9, 2015. For the dozens of protesters who descended on the working-class South Carolina city of North Charleston on Wednesday, a bystander's video of a white police officer gunning down Scott was long-awaited confirmation of what many residents have been saying for years. Activists said the footage, showing Officer Michael Slager shooting 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back, is chilling evidence of what they portray as "an atmosphere of racism" that allows African-Americans to be targeted in North Charleston and across the state. Photo by: Randall Hill/Reuters

Manslaughter plea in Black Lives Matter activist’s death

Roosevelt Iglus had been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 32-year-old Muhiyidin Moye, better known as Muhiyidin d'Baha, of Charleston, South Carolina. Conviction would have brought an automatic life sentence.

By Associated Press

What’s at stake in hearing for NYPD officer who caused Eric Garner’s death

Eric Garner’s 2014 death at the hands of New York City police sparked national outrage and helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement. The police officer at the center of the case is now facing an administrative hearing, although it…

Lawyer’s office shot at after cop’s acquittal in teen death

Gunshots were fired overnight through the window of the attorney who defended a white police officer acquitted Friday in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager.

By Ramesh Santanam, Mark Scolforo, Associated Press

Demonstrators hold candles during a vigil to protest the police shooting of Stephon Clark, in Sacramento, California, U.S. March 23, 2018. REUTERS/Bob Strong - RC196CEAE450

Sacramento cops who shot Stephon Clark won’t face charges

The two Sacramento police officers whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black man last year prompted nationwide protests will not face criminal charges, prosecutors announced Saturday.

By Don Thompson, Associated Press

Opinion: Why I am celebrating ‘Black Lives Matter at School’

By Jesse Hagopian

We worried that when the day actually came, few might be bold enough to publicly proclaim their belief in the value of black lives. Then the t-shirt orders started coming in.

Museums are curating an era of social movements in real time

By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green

As Black Lives Matter protests erupted in 2014 after a police officer killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in D.C. sent curators to collect t-shirts and gas masks -- artifacts it could…

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Starbucks CEO apologizes to black men who were arrested as boycott looms

By Kamala Kelkar

A lengthy apology from Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson on Saturday night to two black men who were arrested at a Philadelphia store last week for alleged trespassing is getting push back for not holding the employee who called 911 more…

Where the march for civil rights stands today

By PBS NewsHour

Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for Americans' civil rights -- and his assassination 50 years ago in Memphis -- changed the world. Judy Woodruff sits down with civil rights activist Vernon Jordan, syndicated columnist Connie Schultz, Vann Newkirk of The…

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New videos show clearest account of Alton Sterling’s killing

By Anthony Izaguirre and Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

Kept under wraps for nearly two years, body camera footage of a policeman killing Alton Sterling shows the officer threatening to shoot the man and screaming profanities before firing the fatal shots that stoked protests across the nation.