Derek Chauvin’s conviction in the George Floyd murder case could spell the end of police immunity

Courts and legislatures are increasingly finding fault with the qualified immunity extended to police forces.

Kent Roach, The Conversation

· Apr 21, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Protests continue in Philadelphia for second night after police shooting of Black man

27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr was gunned down on Monday after he failed to drop the knife he was carrying.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 28, 2020 · 01:04 pm

BTS’s $1-million donation to Black Lives Matter was an outlier in the K-pop industry

The Korean industry has a long history of staying out of political and social issues.

Hye Jin Lee, The Conversation

· Jul 02, 2020 · 09:30 pm

The use of hip-hop by Black Lives Matter carries forward a long tradition of protest music

The connection between race and music begin with Southern blues and continue through jazz and rhythm and blues.

Tyina Steptoe, The Conversation

· Jun 30, 2020 · 11:30 pm

Falling statues: Equating Gandhi’s imperfect anti-colonialism with imperialism and slavery is absurd

Gandhi severely damaged the notion of White supremacy. To throw away that work for a notion of perfect progressiveness harms the Black Lives Matter movement.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jun 21, 2020 · 07:30 am

Black teenager shot dead by Dallas police was driving away, not towards them, admits department

The officer responsible for the killing has been put on administrative leave, though he has not been arrested or charged.

Scroll Staff

· May 02, 2017 · 06:43 pm

Suspected of stealing his own car: Watch this US police action video, released two years later

The police mounted an assault on a Black Phd student suspected of stealing a car – which belonged to him.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 17, 2017 · 10:00 am

How the Jim Crow internet is pushing back against Black Lives Matter

A scholar of visual culture sees a transition happening online.

Nicholas Mirzoeff, The Conversation

· Sep 30, 2016 · 11:30 pm

'There comes a time when silence is betrayal': Serena Williams speaks out against racism in policing

In her Facebook post, the tennis champion quoted Martin Luther King and described her experience of a police vehicle pulling up next to hers.

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· Sep 28, 2016 · 10:20 am

Asian Americans are sending their parents letters to explain what the Black Lives Matter campaign is

21 translations of one letter have been made. The Telugu one was particularly difficult as the literal translation of the word black is often used as an insult.

Hannah Harris Green

· Jul 17, 2016 · 09:00 am

It's 52 years since Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I have a dream' speech

Scroll Staff

· Aug 28, 2015 · 11:01 am