racial justice

Saturday, 200-300 people gathered outside Boston City Hall, calling for justice for George Floyd and protesting police brutality.

A financial snapshot shared exclusively with The Associated Press shows the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation took in just over $90 million last year

Few outside the Georgia port city of Brunswick paid notice in the days and weeks after Ahmaud Arbery was pursued and shot to death by white men who saw him running in their neighborhood

These eight community leaders feel there is still work to be done to create racial equality and equity for Black Americans. They are working to create these changes across multiple sectors in Boston.

Purcell Conway, a civil rights activist who was part of the “wade-ins” that led to the beginning of desegregation of St. Augustine Beach in Florida, talk about his experiences with the violence he faced at his wade-in and the work that still needs to be done beyond the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Dr. Edward S. Cooper talks about his own medical legacy in the field of stroke research and treatment, and what more needs to be done to lessen the health gap for Black Americans.

Dr. Cooper recalls one life-threatening experience during his internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital that shaped his approach to patient care and medicinal treatment.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has removed the name of four-term governor and presidential candidate George C. Wallace from a campus building over his support of racial segregation

President Joe Biden has ordered the Department of Justice to end its reliance on private prisons and acknowledge the central role the government has played implementing discriminatory housing policies

King Boston Executive Director Imari Paris Jeffries on the potential social justice impact of the Biden-Harris administration and the work of his organization, which includes building “The Embrace” on Boston Common.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s son says one of the biggest lesson he learned from his parents was the importance of loving yourself. Martin Luther King III joined LX News to talk about his father’s legacy as a civil rights trailblazer and as a dad.

The NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund is launching a scholarship program to create a new generation of civil rights lawyers

For many, Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. is still best known for his “I Have A Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington. But Emory University’s political science professor Andra Gillespie says Dr. King’s legacy is more complex and significant than those inspirational words. She joined LX News to talk about the uncomfortable conversations Americans still need...

A former Minneapolis police officer who held his knee to George Floyd’s neck for minutes will be tried separately from three other former officers accused in his death

The coronavirus pandemic wasn’t the only major news story to shape the year 2020. We discuss the biggest non-COVID stories of the year, including the racial justice protests that rocked the country following the death of George Floyd.

The Kansas City Star’s top editor has apologized for past decades of racially biased coverage

Colman Domingo stars alongside Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in the new movie “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” out now on Netflix. The actor talked to LX News about why this is the perfect movie to end a year of racial reckoning.

Stone Mountain is the latest Confederate monument to come under fire as America reexamines its racist past. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain visits Stone Mountain, Georgia, for a closer look at the controversy.

The choice for TIME’s Person of the Year for 2020 is down to four candidates. The magazine has revealed its shortlist ahead of its first ever televised special, airing Thursday at 10 p.m. ET on NBC, in which TIME will reveal the recipient its editors felt most influenced the world during a tragic and turbulent year across the globe.

Boston Pride, the organization behind Boston Pride Week, on Thursday announced new positions on its board and advisory committee amid criticism it has failed to address structural racism. The organization said the new seats on its board, transformation advisory committee and community advisory council were part of a “transformation” started this summer to address “concerns raised by Black, Brown, transgender…