Dec 11 Capitol staffers raise their hands to join protest over police killings By Connie Cass, Associated Press Dozens of minority congressional staffers and Capitol employees have gathered to protest the killing of unarmed black men by police. About 200 workers and a few members of Congress stood on the House steps Thursday and silently raised their arms… Continue reading
Dec 09 Photo gallery: 150 arrested in Berkeley protests over police brutality By Adelyn Baxter Weekend protests in Berkeley, California, responding to recent grand jury decisions concerning the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner -- two unarmed black men who died after confrontations with white police officers -- spilled over into Monday night,… Continue reading
Dec 08 Watch 10:17 Why do you march? Young protesters explain what drives them – Part 2 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 08 Watch 2:51 Protesters persist in national demonstrations over race and injustice – Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 08 Why are you protesting? Tell PBS NewsHour By Colleen Shalby To try to capture the reasons and commentary behind the protests pertaining to Eric Garner and Michael Brown, we want to hear directly from protesters across the country. Continue reading
Dec 08 Not the way women wanted to make history this election By Domenico Montanaro, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Yes, there’s a recount in an Arizona House race ongoing, but for pretty much all intents and purposes, the runoff election in the Louisiana Senate race Saturday put the final nail in the 2014 midterm elections. Continue reading
Dec 05 Watch 6:41 News Wrap: Crowds turn out nationwide to protest police conduct By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, protests over the Eric Garner case and police conduct overall continued across the U.S. with no sign of abating. The NYPD launched a program to train its officers to use body cameras. Also, the International… Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch 5:46 Will outrage over Garner, Ferguson grand jury verdicts trigger systemic changes? – Part 4 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch 5:41 Using poetry to uncover the moments that lead to racism By PBS News Hour Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine says that the small moments that carve gaps of misunderstanding between Americans lead to big, national moments of misunderstanding, like events in Ferguson and New York. Rankine explores these disruptions and how they lead to… Continue watching