Racial Justice Movement

In this May 25, 2020 file image from surveillance video, Minneapolis police Officers from left, Tou Thao, Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane are seen attempting to take George Floyd into custody in Minneapolis, Minn. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File) WX301 WX301

May 7, 2021 at 6:37 am

4 ex-cops indicted on US civil rights charges in Floyd death

A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death, accusing them of willfully violating the...

Evanston’s local historian Morris “Dino” Robinson Jr., who co-authored a city-commissioned study on housing practices, poses for a portrait in Shorefront Legacy Center in Evanston, Ill., Friday, April 9, 2021. The Chicago suburb is preparing to pay reparations in the form of housing grants to Black residents who experienced housing discrimination. â€œItâ€™s a lot, a lot of work, and be prepared for pulling back old wounds, telling truth, gaining the trust,â€ Robinson said. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar) ILSA206 ILSA206

May 6, 2021 at 9:07 am

Chicago suburb set to pay reparations for housing discrimination VIEW

In a national first, Evanston is acknowledging past racist policies and giving eligible Black residents $25,000 grants for down payments, home repairs or existing mortgages...

FILE – In this Friday, April 16, 2021, file photo, law enforcement personnel work at the scene following a police-involved shooting of a man at Lents Park, in Portland, Ore. Police fatally shot a man in the city park Friday, April 30, 2021 after responding to reports of a person with a gun. Unlike shootings involving police around the country there was no body camera footage of this encounter. Portland, which has become the epicenter of racial justice protests, is one of the few major U.S. cities where police do not have body cameras. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, File) ORPOR631 ORPOR631

May 5, 2021 at 9:33 am

Shooting highlights lack of body cams among Portland police

Portland, an epicenter of racial justice protests, is one of the few major U.S. cities where police are not required to wear body cameras. A...

Katie Wright, foreground center, gestures with supporters in Brooklyn Center, Minn., Sunday, May 2, 2021. Hundreds of people joined Daunte Wright’s family and friends on a march through the Minneapolis suburb where he was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop three weeks earlier. The group walked several miles to the Brooklyn Center Police Department where his mother, Katie Wright, called on the crowd to keep saying her son’s name. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP) MNMIT101 MNMIT101

May 3, 2021 at 5:04 am

Hundreds join Daunte Wright’s family on march for justice

The crowd gathered in the Brooklyn Center neighborhood outside Minneapolis, where Kimberly Potter, who is white, fatally shot Daunte Wright, 20, as he struggled with...

The casket of Andrew Brown Jr., stands in the church ahead of his funeral, Monday, May 3, 2021 at Fountain of Life Church in Elizabeth City, N.C. Brown was fatally shot by Pasquotank County Sheriff deputies trying to serve a search warrant. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) NCMS120 NCMS120

May 2, 2021 at 9:05 pm

Calls for justice at N.C. funeral of Andrew Brown Jr. WATCH

Andrew Brown Jr., 42, was shot and killed on April 21 by deputies attempting to serve search and arrest warrants, sparking days of protests in...

Protesters have demanded the release of the entire body camera video of Brown’s shooting. Sheriff’s officials have released only part of the video. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Joshua Lott.

April 30, 2021 at 1:45 pm

Black residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., thought police violence happened elsewhere. Then it came to their town. VIEW

The April 21 shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. shocked residents not only because of its violence, but because it aggravated racial tensions simmering below the...

FILE – In this Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, Wanda Cooper-Jones kneels before the grave of her son, Ahmaud Arbery, at the New Springfield Baptist Church in Waynesboro, Ga., to mark the one year anniversary of Ahmaud Arbery’s death in Brunswick, Ga. The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the death of Arbery, who was killed while out for a run.(AP Photo/Lewis M. Levine, file) WX121 WX121

April 28, 2021 at 1:55 pm

U.S. indicts 3 on hate crime charges in death of Ahmaud Arbery, Georgia man out for a run

The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges Wednesday in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was killed while out for a...

A group marches along the Hawthorne Bridge after meeting at Salmon Street Springs and listening to several Black and Indigenous speakers talk, Friday, April 16, 2021, in Portland, Ore. Police in Portland, said Saturday they arrested several people after declaring a riot Friday night when protesters smashed windows, burglarized businesses and set multiple fires during demonstrations that started after police fatally shot a man while responding to reports of a person with a gun. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP)

April 27, 2021 at 3:01 pm

After nearly a year of unrest, Portland leaders pursue a crackdown

After almost a year of near-continuous protests in Portland since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the mayor has vowed to “unmask” those...

Kirk Rivers leads a group of demonstrators as they block Ehringhaus Street, a main retail avenue in Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, April 23, 2021, as they demand after a fatal shooting that body camera video be released by the Pasquotank Sheriff’s office. Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black man from Elizabeth City, N.C., was shot to death Wednesday by one or more deputy sheriffs trying to serve drug-related search and arrest warrants. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP) NCRAL800 NCRAL800

April 23, 2021 at 12:38 pm

7 deputies on leave after fatal shooting of Black man VIEW

Leaders of a North Carolina city where a Black man was killed by deputies serving warrants urged the sheriff to release body camera video. The...

A photo provided by the Minnesota Department of Corrections shows former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in a booking photo, provided on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd while in police custody last year. (Minnesota Department of Corrections via The New York Times) — FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. — XNYT55 XNYT55

April 23, 2021 at 10:34 am

EXPLAINER: Can Chauvin get his convictions tossed on appeal? VIEW

Ex-Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on murder and manslaughter charges in the 2020 death of George Floyd. Here’s a look at some of...

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