racial justice

A civil rights complaint was filed against a woman accused of telling a Black child who accidentally broke her son’s toy that she would “kneel on his neck” and calling him a racial slur, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said Thursday. Kristina Graper, 51, of Dover, threatened the 9-year-old boy who was playing in a neighborhood park with...

Fred Ware and his son were researching the history of the home he’s owned in Manchester, in the Hartford suburbs, since 1950 when they discovered something far uglier than they expected. Tucked in a list of rules on the home’s original deed from the developer was a provision that said: “No persons of any race other than the white...

Monday will be the first time Massachusetts officially celebrates Juneteenth, and many groups are planning to go all-out.

Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, is stepping down as executive director of the movement’s foundation.

Gov. Phil Scott proclaimed Tuesday, the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, “George Floyd Remembrance Day” in Vermont, and asked people across the state to acknowledge systemic racism in order to work toward full equality for everyone. In Burlington’s City Hall Park, participants in a silent remembrance service knelt, laid with their cheeks against the ground, closed their...

Vermont residents gathered and held a moment of silence on the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s death. Gov. Scott proclaimed May 25 “George Floyd Remembrance Day.”

A Black Indianapolis homeowner who had a nagging suspicion that her house was lowballed in two appraisals last year says the value of her house doubled after she asked a white friend to stand in for her during a third appraisal, NBC News reports.

Chauvin’s arrest, trial and subsequent conviction were hailed as watershed moments. But now a year later following Floyd’s death the question must be asked… has anything actually changed?

In Sen. Tim Scott’s rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress, the Republican from South Carolina discussed his own experience with discrimination and said ‘people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven’t made any progress at all.’

Nearly a year after George Floyd’s killing, efforts to enact police and racial justice reforms in New Hampshire are moving forward, with some exceptions. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu created a law enforcement accountability commission last summer, and many of its recommendations have been implemented via executive order, including overhauling the state’s police training standards, requiring state troopers to wear...

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Derek Chauvin, then a police officer in Minneapolis, was the start of a year of tension, especially in the Black community. While many felt great relief when Chauvin was found guilty Tuesday, the trial was difficult for many to take in and brought anxiety. “I saw the verdict come down, and…

A new project in Vermont aims to amplify voices of Black youth and strengthen a sense of community. “We’re getting progressively better over time,” Yeshua Armbrister, 19, said of Vermont communities’ goal of being ever more inclusive. Armbrister is one of the first participants in Black Voices of Vermont, a new, interactive media project focused on highlighting the experiences and…

A digital storytelling archive, is looking to amplify voices of Black youth in Vermont.

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.