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The remembrances come at a fraught moment for activists, who hoped the protests that followed Floyd's murder would lead to ...
Police reform and civil rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder nationwide and to decry the Trump administration for setting ...
Consent decrees have had mixed results. In Los Angeles, which exited its 12-year agreement in 2013, the police department ...
As the cities where Floyd grew up and died hold commemorations, the US "reckoning" with racism seems to be fading.
The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in May 2020 gave momentum to a cross-ideological effort to reform the legal defense known as "qualified immunity," which can protect cops ...
The person least surprised by the Justice Department’s decision this week to drop the consent decree granting federal ...
One legacy of Black Lives Matter is how it engaged young people in causes beyond police brutality in the United States. Many ...
Minneapolis Jacob Frey, Governor Tim Walz and Representative Melissa Hortman and other members of congress all released statements reflecting on the last five years since George Floyd was murdered by ...
What lessons can we pull from the movement of 2020 — its victories and its shortcomings — in the continued fight for Black liberation? #policebrutality ...