Jones, a fierce champion of the Black Lives Matter movement, received 30.4 percent of the vote in the democratic mayoral primary but ultimately lost to Alderman Lyda Krewson.
A BLM activist plans to open a youth training center in Chicago. Fundraising is underway.
The Army Corps issued a letter demanding that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe vacate the land so that they can move forward with building the controversial oil pipeline.
The father of a slain Dallas cop sues Black Lives Matter. His lawsuit alleges that the group's message inspired the deadly sniper attack that killed five officers in Dallas.
A federal lawsuit seeks to compel federal agencies to release surveillance data of Black Lives Matter protesters. The plaintiffs suspect that the FBI and DHS have violated the constitutional rights of demonstrators.
Twenty-four-year-old De'Launa Powell was shot and killed early Tuesday morning in Alabama.
Hundreds of Seattle public school teachers plan to wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts to school for a week. They want to spark a dialogue in the school district about racial injustice.
East Tennessee State University police arrested a White student wearing a gorilla mask at a BLM protest. He told the police he wanted to provoke the demonstrators.
British police arrested nine BLM demonstrators. The nine White demonstrators were protesting environmental racism.
The Black Lives Matter platform addresses the need for education reform.
The conspiracy theories have already started to fly on social media as racial tensions rise over the deaths of two unarmed Black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, followed by the deadly ambush of five Dallas, Texas police officers, who were allegedly shot by a lone Black man. The loss of life on both sides […]
