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Leading the discussion was Republican South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and Democrats New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and California Congresswoman Karen Bass as they met with families impacted by police violence on Capitol Hill.

Blood was also smeared on the house that once belonged to Barry Brodd, a retired police officer who was on the stand in the Minneapolis murder trial last week

With the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd on Tuesday, prosecutors will begin turning their attention to making their case against three others who took part in the fatal arrest.

As a young man in Memphis, Tennessee, Robert Dabney Jr. wanted to blaze a path that could set his family up for a better life. So two weeks after high school graduation in 1998, at age 18, he joined the U.S. Army. During nine years of service that included two tours in Iraq, Dabney was […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Ben Crump, a nationally-known trial lawyer and civil rights advocate who has represented the families of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd, has been retained by the family of an Austin-East Magnet high school student who was killed in an officer-involved shooting. Crump confirmed Monday on Twitter that he has been retained […]

The site with 70 million monthly users took the unusual step of anointing a word it added just last month, though “allyship” first surfaced in the mid-1800s.

Mark and Patricia McCloskey both pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges related to an incident in which they waved guns at protesters outside their Missouri home last year.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy and civil rights attorney Ben Crump will deliver remarks during a funeral service for a Chicago man allegedly shot and killed by a security guard while visiting Memphis. Also announced Monday, The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference appointed District Attorney General Glenn Funk of Nashville […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Long after he was killed, Myrtle Green-Burton wouldn’t let anyone wear her 17-year-old son’s high school track team jacket. James Earl Green, an aspiring Olympic runner, was supposed to receive the green and yellow coat at his graduation in Mississippi half a century ago. It became a symbol of his life […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Dozens of people gathered in front of the Minnesota governor’s mansion on Saturday to demand accountability for police officers, days before a former Minneapolis officer is scheduled to go on trial in the death of George Floyd. Many of the roughly 150 people who demonstrated in Minnesota were family members […]

Lawmakers say they are eager to pass federal police reforms and that they’re nearing a bipartisan agreement to do it.