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The U.S. Marshals Service is investigating after a protester was critically injured after being hit in the head by a less-lethal round fired by a federal officer.

Exhausted American cities are facing yet another challenge in addition to the coronavirus and the street protests over the police killing of George Floyd.

Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler is not in favor of the WNBA’s social justice plans and has sent a letter to Commissioner Cathy Engelbert objecting to the league’s initiatives to honor the Black Lives Matter movement when the season begins in Florida.

A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders have now pivoted to new targets

Mississippi legislators have taken historic votes to remove a Confederate battle emblem from their state flag.

Young organizers are helping drive the outpouring of protest against racism and police brutality around the U.S.  Many have grown up seeing videos about deaths of people of color at the hands of police.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to protect federal monuments after a rash of recent incidents involving the vandalism of statues memorializing the Confederacy and some of the nation’s Founding Fathers.

The coronavirus pandemic and calls for racial equality have changed the very nature of this year’s 50th anniversary LGBTQ Pride events

Verizon is joining an escalating movement to siphon advertising away from Facebook in an effort to pressure the company into doing more to prevent racist and violent information from being shared on its social networking service

Officials in the historic South Carolina city of Charleston have unanimously voted to remove a statue of former vice president and slavery advocate John C

Protesters are demanding the removal of two statues in Washington, D.C., that honor American presidents — one who owned enslaved people, and another who set them free. A group called The Freedom Neighborhood organized a protest Tuesday evening at Lincoln Park in Capitol Hill to call for the removal of a statue that depicts a freed Black man in shackles…

At a roundtable on the border wall on Tuesday, President Donald Trump offered to help states protect statues by imprisoning anyone caught defacing military monuments after accusing some state leaders of “being very weak in protecting their heritage and protecting their culture.” The president’s comments come after a growing call to remove statues honoring historical figures tied to slavery and...

Seattle’s mayor says the city will move to wind down the “occupied” protest zone following two recent shootings, including one that left a man dead

In law enforcement, they’re referred to as “nonlethal” tools for dealing with demonstrations that turn unruly

A newspaper report says the former Atlanta police officer charged with felony murder  in the fatal shooting of an African American man was involved in another shooting five years ago that left a man with a punctured lung

A shooting in Seattle’s protest zone has left one person dead and another critically injured

A Denver neighborhood has voted to recommend changing its name after a yearslong debate over its association with a former mayor with ties to the Ku Klux Klan

The brother of George Floyd has made a heartfelt plea to the U.N.’s top human rights body to launch intense international scrutiny of systemic racism, killing of black people by police and violence against peaceful protesters in the United States

NBA players have until June 24 to commit to playing in the upcoming basketball restart. Players who choose to participate in the upcoming season will be subject to strict coronavirus guidelines.