Black Lives Matter

State Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker says it’s not enough to teach about racism and slavery during Black History Month.

Tamara Russell, aka P.O.C., hit the streets to hear what Philadelphians are saying about the news that Penn Museum had stored and studied the remains of MOVE children.

The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges Wednesday in the death of a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year.

Police say Lymond Moses drove at a high rate of speed ‘directly’ at officers, but a lawsuit says bodycam footage undermines that account and shows officers were in no danger.

WHYY asked students from its Media Lab how they were feeling about the Chauvin verdict. Here are some of their responses.

Saj Blackwell, a partner in WHYY’s News and Information Community Exchange, spoke to her neighbors along 52nd Street about the relief they’re feeling after the Chauvin verdict

For many, justice is about more than one trial.

Sheriff's deputies shot and killed Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, while carrying out search and arrest warrants at his home Wednesday in Elizabeth City, N.C.

Nah’Jole Frazier had been dealing with mental health issues when he was struck by a driver earlier this month. Now, his parents want to address a need for better services.

Across the country, police departments are increasingly using body-worn cameras to better monitor what officers are doing out in the field.

Less than 30 minutes before the man charged with killing George Floyd was pronounced guilty, yet another Black person was dead at the hands of police in the U.S.

The deadly encounters are only a small snapshot of the thousands of interactions between American police officers and civilians every day.

On Thursday, a group of about 20 Philadelphia high school students were asked to react to the Chauvin verdict. This is what they said.

University researchers were cavalier about studying the bones of Delisha and Tree Africa, and there’s still no clarity on where they currently are.

N.J. was already in the midst of an effort to reduce police use of force against civilians when Floyd was murdered. Here’s where these efforts stand now.