Social Justice

President Obama held a virtual town hall event with young people to discuss policing and the civil unrest that has followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Between Saturday and Wednesday, about 500 people were arrested on curfew violations under Mayor Jim Kenney’s emergency order.

Wolf spoke briefly to the crowd, telling them, “We need to stop racism now.”

The nonprofit’s announcement came on the heels of the removal of another controversial Rizzo landmark: the 10-foot-tall bronze statue outside the Municipal Services Building.

The three other police officers on the scene when a Minneapolis officer pressed his knee on George Floyd’s neck are being charged with aiding and abetting a murder.

Amid the civil unrest in Philadelphia, about 50 ATMs in have been blown up since Saturday by thieves attempting to steal the money inside, according to city officials.

For more than a decade, African Americans called for the removal of the Rizzo statue. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has finally heard them.

On Tuesday, a group of state House Democrats and local Philadelphia lawmakers proposed dozens of reforms regarding police training, discipline, and oversight.

New Jersey will update its use of force guidelines for the first time in two decades and will move to require a statewide licensing program for all police officers.

Mostly peaceful throughout the day, the demonstrators faced police officers, National Guard troops and other forces.

Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration removed it overnight.

“This is not the end,” Mayor Jim Kenney said, pointing to where the bronze statue once stood. “[Removing the statue] is not the be-all and end-all of where we need to go.”

Hundreds who’d gathered on I-676 scrambled to escape the noxious fumes.

Though Black Out Tuesday was originally organized by the music community, the social media world also went dark in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

"There have been epidemics in the Black community that have existed for generations before COVID. COVID accentuated and exposed those epidemics."