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Activists and towns are left wondering what to do with empty spaces that once honored historic figures tied to racism as statues and monuments fall

A civil rights activist, attorney and writer explain race relations, societal change and the political awakening happening in the United States following the tragic death of George Floyd. When it comes to race, “systemic problems have plagued the nation for not only decades, but for centuries,” says Derrick Johnson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People....

Authorities say a car drove onto a closed freeway and into a crowd of protesters, killing one person and critically injuring another. Twenty-four-year-old Summer Taylor of Seattle died in the evening at Harborview Medical Center.

Hundreds of people in some Massachusetts cities marked July Fourth with continued demonstrations against systemic racism. Nearly a thousand people indicated on Facebook they planned to attend a march and rally organized by Black Lives Matter Boston to celebrate Black women. The “Say Her Name March and Rally” began at 4 p.m. at Nubian Square in Roxbury and ended at…

People living in Hong Kong are starting to seek a way out after China passed a controversial new national security law that the people of Hong Kong said violates their autonomy. The passage of the law is seen as Beijing’s response to the year-long, anti-government protests that have swept the former territory.

There is little evidence that the protests that erupted after George Floyd’s death caused a significant increase in U.S. coronavirus infections, according to public health experts. If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to become apparent within two weeks — and perhaps as early as five days. But that didn’t...

A Black man in Georgia is accusing police of violating his civil rights, saying a white officer slammed him to the ground and broke his wrist in the mistaken belief that there was a warrant for his arrest.

The 75-year-old New York protester who fractured his skull when he hit his head on the pavement after being shoved by police in Buffalo last month has been discharged from the hospital, his attorney said Tuesday.

Seattle city crews used heavy equipment to remove makeshift barriers around the city’s “occupied” protest zone following two fatal shootings in the area.

As videos of Black people being killed at the hands of police make the rounds online, many Americans have felt called to protest racial injustice in recent weeks

Video captured Sunday night shows a man and woman pointing guns at protesters as they marched through a St. Louis neighborhood.

A 16-year-old boy was killed and and a younger teen was wounded before dawn in what is being called Seattle’s occupied protest zone

Video captured Sunday night shows a man and woman pointing guns at protesters as they marched through a St. Louis neighborhood.

The Minneapolis City Council has unanimously advanced a plan that could one day do away with the city’s police department, following unrest over the killing of George Floyd

George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee to his neck for almost nine minutes, was buried in Houston Tuesday after days of memorials that merged religion and politics in ways long common in the African American community. His funeral at the Fountain of Praise church follows a six-hour public viewing of his gold-colored casket on…

Country artists have long been hesitant to address racial issues, but the rallies over racial injustice this year have become too important for the genre to ignore

Bob Moses says America is at “a lurching moment” for racial change, potentially as transforming as the Civil War era and the 1960s civil rights movement that he helped lead

Protesters are demanding the removal of two statues in Washington, D.C., that honor American presidents — one who owned enslaved people, and another who set them free. A group called The Freedom Neighborhood organized a protest Tuesday evening at Lincoln Park in Capitol Hill to call for the removal of a statue that depicts a freed Black man in shackles…

At a roundtable on the border wall on Tuesday, President Donald Trump offered to help states protect statues by imprisoning anyone caught defacing military monuments after accusing some state leaders of “being very weak in protecting their heritage and protecting their culture.” The president’s comments come after a growing call to remove statues honoring historical figures tied to slavery and...