Black Lives Matter

An elections official says a poll worker in Memphis, Tennessee, has been fired after turning away early voters who were wearing “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe” shirts

Restee “Roc” Collins is only 11 years old, but he knows the importance of voting. The young artist designed us an ‘I Voted’ sticker that honors Black Lives Matter. To find his sticker – and our entire collection of artist-created “I Voted” stickers – search “LXtion2020” on Giphy.

Restee “Roc” Collins has found his calling as an abstract artist at just 11 years old. The young artist took us up on our challenge to design an “I Voted” sticker for 2020, using Black Lives Matter as an inspiration for his design.

The youngest voters in America are pessimistic about the future, worried about the coronavirus, down on President Donald Trump and positive about the Black Lives Matter movement, NBC News reports.

Following months of Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others, a police officer in Wolfe City, Texas, has been charged with murder in the shooting death of another Black man, Jonathan Price. What made this case different? LX News talked to Michael Harriot of The Root and the executive director...

Calls to defund police departments have not had widespread success across the U.S. While a handful of left-leaning cities have proposed structural reforms, most cuts to law enforcement agencies have been modest so far.

Some white merchants on the craft marketplace Etsy are offering homespun products with a Black Lives Matter theme, including wine stoppers and garden gnomes

It’s not only in the United States where protests against racial injustice are part of the national conversation

Danielle Belton of The Root gives a breakdown of The Root 100 Top Influential African Americans of 2020.

Colin Kaepernick hasn’t spoken out in a public forum in several years. But for a man who’s stayed largely silent, his shadow has continued to loom large both over the NFL and a divided country in the midst of social upheaval. Given the unrest that’s gripped much of the nation its no surprise that Kaepernick, along with a handful of...

After months of waiting for a decision in the case of Breonna Taylor’s death by police shooting, former Louisville cop Brett Hankison was charged with “wanton endangerment” for firing rounds that also entered a neighbor’s apartment. Criminal defense attorney Brian Butler breaks down what this means and what lies ahead for this controversial case.

The CROWN Act stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair. Congresswoman Marcia Fudge shares the emotional personal stories of hair discrimination that drove her to help introduce this legislation on behalf of Black women.

Protesters marched in Louisville, Ky., after a grand jury did not charge three Louisville police officers for Breonna Taylor’s shooting death.

Alicia Garza, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement and the principal of Black to the Future Action Fund explains what is at stake for the movement after the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and why voting this year is more important than ever.

The Uncle Ben’s rice brand is changing its name to Ben’s Original

A stretch of a Minneapolis street that includes the place where George Floyd was killed will soon be named in his honor

The written testimony to Congress has many concerned about the Trump administration’s willingness to use force against protesters. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Tiffiny Dixon is an activist and mother to a 4-year-old son she describes as bursting with energy… a real go-getter who literally leaps out of bed each morning with a smile on his face ready to embrace the world....
But Dixon worries. She that where she sees simply hope for the future, others will one day see a future threat. And...

Tiffiny Dixon looks at her 4-year-old son and knows that someday he will “stop being cute” and start being stereotyped as a threat. That’s why she takes him to Black Lives Matter protests – to teach him how to fight back by using his constitutional rights of assembly and free speech.

The City of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor and implement police reforms as part of a settlement to a lawsuit, Mayor Greg Fischer announced Tuesday.