Social Justice

Mayor Marty Small and protest organizer Steve Young picked up roller paint brushes and helped write those words on the pavement of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Camden has received national attention as a model for community policing, but many residents have been critical of this praise. The members of Watu Moja are among them.

A City Hall rally continues a summer that has seen the country’s largest protests and demands for racial justice and police reforms in decades.

Markell said he was inspired by the last words of activist Heather Heyer, who was murdered at the rally: “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.”

Responding to the school’s stance on Black Lives Matter, some students move their final showcase to outside galleries.

The plaintiffs include relatives of those impacted by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as well as a 105-year-old survivor, Lessie Benningfield Randle.

Daniel Prude was arrested by Rochester Police in the early hours of March 23, after his brother, concerned for Prude's safety, had called 911.

He has repeated conspiracy theories that recent protests have been orchestrated by powerful people in “dark shadows” intent on undermining his reelection prospects.

“Why would they put her name on there?” Aguiar, the lawyer for Taylor's family, said in a statement sent to news media. “It’s outrageous.”

Portions of a witness video posted by Los Angeles TV station Fox 11 shows the man's body on the ground behind a pickup truck as angry onlookers yell at deputies in the street.

Community activists, nonprofits and young people have mobilized against the rising tide of gun violence.

Many NFL teams are weighing how to tackle racial justice issues in the days since Jacob Blake, 29, was left with paralysis after being shot in the back by a police officer.

Residents are experiencing pain and fear, according to the Urban League president, in a city with a history of oppressing Black Americans.

“We are heartbroken and enraged, but we are steadfast in our demand for justice,” Tanya Mclean, a Blake family friend who helped organize the event, said in a statement.

Team owners who also control their arena property will work with officials to turn the building into a voting location for the 2020 general election.