Civil Rights & Social Justice

Police in Mesquite, Texas, shot and killed Ashton Pinke while responding to a 911 call reportedly intended to seek a mental health wellness check, according to the lawyer representing his family.

Mikayla Miller, a Black teenage girl, was found hanging from a tree in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, a mostly white suburb of Boston. Her mother has reportedly described the death as a lynching.

Rev. Al Sharpton's eulogy at Andrew Brown Jr.'s funeral called out South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott's much-debated claim that "America is not a racist country."

Lingering unanswered questions surrounding the high-profile police shooting Andrew Brown Jr. was looming large ahead of his funeral in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Facebook posts by North Carolina Superior Court Judge Jeffery Foster, who blocked the public release of bodycam video from Andrew Brown Jr.'s police killing in Elizabeth City, suggest he has pro-police bias.

The racially sparked riots lasted more than six days, with thousands of Angelenos taking to the streets in an especially violent display of protest. Fifty-three people were killed and more than two thousand were said to be injured.

A prosecutor argued there was legal justification for police officers shooting and killing Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and demanded the continued delayed release of bodycam footage

Brandon Mitchell recalled feeling "stress" and "pressure," but not to deliver a guilty verdict. Instead, he said, it was having to repeatedly see the explicit video footage of George Floyd being killed that took an emotional toll on him.

Louisville Police Cheif Erika Shields took an unexpected tack in response to the news that the U.S. Department of Justice was launching an investigation into her department.

A provision in the recent COVID-19 relief bill sets aside $1 billion over 10 years, encouraging states to establish mobile crisis units.

That is our charge today, after the Chauvin verdict: to use the energy of this moment to be the strongest advocates we can for changing how policing is done in our own communities.

The funeral for Daunte Wright, one of the most recent victims of preventable police violence against unarmed Black people, was set to take place Thursday in Minneapolis.