Black Lives Matter
A Louisiana Police Officer Was Arrested After Fatally Shooting An Unarmed Black Man
Officer Alexander Tyler was arrested on Thursday morning on charges of negligent homicide, but was released by Thursday afternoon on a $25,000 bond.
Steffi Cao
The Writing On The Game “Forspoken” Is As Bad As Everyone’s Saying. Its Black Woman Lead Is Just One Of The Casualties.
The game uses tokenized diversity to try to make a generic Hero’s Journey feel fresh, but the end result is completely uninterested in its characters’ interior lives.
Sydnee Thompson
Family And Friends Remember Tyre Nichols As A “Free Spirit” Who “Was Just His Own Person”
“He has a tattoo of my name on his arm,” Nichols’s mother RowVaughn Wells said in a press conference on Friday. “My son loved me to death and I loved him to death.”
Steffi Cao
29-Year-Old Tyre Nichols Died After Being Brutally Beaten By Police, His Family Said. Now Five Officers Have Been Fired In Connection With His Death
The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into 29-year-old Tyre Nichols's death, while the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations investigates the officers’ actions.
Steffi Cao
10 Times Sport Team Owners Were Accused Of Racist Behavior And The Consequences They Were Handed
From Jerry Jones to Kelly Loeffler.
Lamar West
Watch "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" Stars Letitia Wright And Winston Duke Speak To An Exclusive D23 Panel About Diversity
Wakanda Forever!
Karlton Jahmal
Styles P Goes Viral After Footage Of Him Trying To Protect A Black Woman From Cops Sets The Internet Ablaze
Styles P is forever GOATed for this.
Karlton Jahmal
I Interviewed The Grandmother Of Juneteenth, Ms. Opal Lee, And Here's What She Had To Say About Activism In 2022
Ms. Opal Lee is a legend.
Karlton Jahmal
You Can't Kill A Revolution: The FBI's Assassination Of Fred Hampton Proves America's Obsession With Dismantling Black Leaders
The murderers of a young revolutionary escaped justice, but his purpose lives on.
mykethompson
The FBI Tried To Make MLK Kill Himself: Everything You Need To Know About The Civil Rights Icon And His Assassination
The FBI had it out for MLK.
James Jones
What They Didn't Teach You In School: The Assassination Of Medgar Evers And The Murderer Who Walked Free For Three Decades
Mr. Evers' killer wasn't convicted for nearly three decades.
Karlton Jahmal
5 Reasons Why Brian Flores' Racism Lawsuit Against The NFL Is A HUGE Deal
The NFL's racial history is not one to be ignored.
Joshua Correa
A Reporter Was Found Not Guilty Of Criminal Charges Over Her Coverage Of Black Lives Matter Protests
Andrea Sahouri, a Des Moines Register reporter, testified that she did not resist arrest and had repeatedly identified herself as a journalist to police.
Clarissa-Jan Lim
The Black Lives Matter Social Media Uprising For George Floyd Paved The Way For Asian Americans To Have Their Online Reckoning
In this week's newsletter: Asian American influencers and online community-builders are confronting difficult identity issues after the recent string of racist attacks.
Tanya Chen
Trump Once Again Mischaracterized The Black Lives Matter Movement By Falsely Linking It To An Anti-Police Chant
During the final presidential debate, Trump falsely associated the national Black Lives Matter movement with the anti-police chant "Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon."
Tasneem Nashrulla
Omaha Police Arrested An Entire Black Lives Matter March. Protesters Said That’s Just Fired Them Up.
A new generation of leaders is looking to change how the city protests. “Omaha isn’t a city that’s known for its resistance.”
Amber Jamieson
A Sheriff Told Library Staff Not To Call 911 Because They Were Thinking Of Supporting Black Lives Matter
"I wish you good luck with disturbances and lewd behavior, since those are just some of the recent calls my office has assisted you with in the past."
Salvador Hernandez
A Man Was Fatally Shot At A Black Lives Matter Protest In Texas
The suspect who allegedly shot Garrett Foster was released by police pending further investigation.
Julia Reinstein
Costco Didn’t Enforce Its Dress Code — Until Employees Started Wearing Black Lives Matter Masks
The retail giant's policies require workers to look “professional,” but employees say managers ignored it until some employees started wearing masks that Costco calls “political.”
Brianna Sacks
Indiana Police Arrested A Woman For A Hit-And-Run Crash At A Black Lives Matter Protest
Christi Bennett, 66, was booked on four preliminary charges for the alleged hit-and-run.
Craig Silverman
A Man And Woman Were Charged With A Hate Crime For Painting Over A Black Lives Matter Mural
The pair recorded themselves painting over the Black Lives Matter mural with black paint just hours after it was finished on the 4th of July.
Salvador Hernandez
What Happened In Bethel, Ohio?
“I knew they were going to run into trouble. The question was how much?"
Anne Helen Petersen
The FBI Used Its Most Advanced Spy Plane To Watch Black Lives Matter Protests
The aircraft is normally used to provide surveillance for big federal drug and gang busts — but flew over the Black Lives Matter protests in DC earlier this month, as well as over Baltimore during the protests following Freddie Gray's death.
Peter Aldhous
"The Black Lives Matter Foundation" Raised Millions. It's Not Affiliated With The Black Lives Matter Movement.
Employees of Apple, Google, and Microsoft have raised millions of dollars for the Black Lives Matter Foundation thinking it's the international racial justice movement seeking to end police brutality. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Ryan Mac
Black Lives Matter Protester Oluwatoyin Salau Was Found Dead After Tweeting About Being Sexually Assaulted
"[S]he had no hate in her heart and only wanted peace and love," one friend wrote on Twitter.
Addy Baird
An Intimate Look At The Activists Involved In The Black Lives Matter Movement
"The world saw a modern-day lynching," photographer Sheila Pree Bright told BuzzFeed News.
Kate Bubacz
“Black Lives Matter,” Say These Companies That Sell Skin Lightening Products
"We believe Black people should have the right to live without fear,” wrote Olay on Instagram — at the same time it sold "White Radiance Light Perfecting Essence."
Megha Rajagopalan
Starbucks Is Now Allowing Its Employees To Wear Black Lives Matter Merch After Getting A Ton Of Backlash
The policy reversal comes after employee pushback and calls for a boycott.
Ryan Brooks
Statues In The US And Around The World Are Being Beheaded And Torn Down Amid Black Lives Matter Protests
In the US, UK, and elsewhere, public monuments commemorating people with backgrounds linked to slavery and racism are being toppled by angry demonstrators.
Ade Onibada
Mark Zuckerberg Promises Changes At Facebook While Declaring “Black Lives Matter”
“It’s encouraging to see Zuck post this, but I’ll maintain my skepticism until some sort of action is taken by the company," one Facebook employee told BuzzFeed News.
Ryan Mac
