King Would Side With Black Lives Matter Protesters, Says Professor
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would side with today’s young protesters, says African-American studies Professor James Taylor. The civil rights hero’s holiday this year took on a special significance,...
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Justice Dept. Will Reportedly Clear Ferguson Police Officer in Brown Case
The Justice Department is poised to declare that former police Officer Darren Wilson should not face civil rights charges over the death of Michael Brown, law enforcement sources tell NPR. Wilson, who...
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S.F. Visitacion Valley Middle Schoolers March for Equality
It was a march that almost didn’t happen. But today, a couple dozen San Francisco students from Visitacion Valley Middle School made a statement on police accountability and violence in their...
View ArticlePublic Defenders Tackle Implicit Bias In the Courts
Inspired by the national Black Lives Matter movement, public defenders throughout the Bay Area have formed a new organization with the goal of bringing issues of racial inequality to the forefront in...
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Black Love Festival Engages More Young People in Black Lives Matter
A group of organizers is engaging more young people in the Black Lives Matter movement through art, music and love. It’s been two years since Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors introduced the hashtag...
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14 Consider Lawsuit Against City of Berkeley After Protests
Attorneys representing 14 people who say they were struck and jabbed by police batons, clubbed, beaten, tear gassed, slammed to the ground, fired on with “less lethal” projectiles or arrested during...
View ArticleAnger Seethes Over Oakland Police Shootings of Allegedly Armed Suspects
More demonstrations are planned in Oakland Friday following the third fatal officer-involved shooting in the city this summer. All suspects killed in Oakland since June were black men; all were...
View ArticleIs the Internet Changing the Way We Talk About Race?
Last Wednesday, Baltimore police arrested 16 activists protesting the permanent appointment of interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. The activists were from a group called the Baltimore...
View ArticleRichmond Police Chief Chris Magnus Is Headed to Tucson
Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus has been selected as the leading candidate to head the Tucson Police Department. While the new job doesn’t come with a raise, it does come with new challenges:...
View ArticleA Year After Tamir Rice Shooting, Oakland Dispatchers Weigh In on How...
A year ago this week, Cleveland police shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice while he was holding what turned out to be a toy pistol. In a case that has become part of the national conversation about...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter Protesters Shut Down Highway 101 Offramp Near SFO
On one of the busiest days of the holiday season, eight members of the Bay Area Black Lives Matter movement walked onto a southbound Highway 101 offramp for San Francisco International Airport. They...
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Decades Since His Death, MLK’s Shadow Still Shapes Today’s Activism
The country remembers the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. More than four decades after his death, many people see the Black Lives Matter movement as the modern incarnation of the drive for human...
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Activism, Inconvenience and Echoes of Protest History on the Bay Bridge
I know thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands, were put out by Monday afternoon’s Martin Luther King Day blockade on the Bay Bridge. Or at least upset that the one day they might have expected...
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Bay Bridge Protesters Say They Were Mistreated by CHP
Update, Wednesday, Jan. 20: The California Highway Patrol is acknowledging that the two dozen protesters arrested Monday afternoon for blocking the Bay Bridge were handcuffed for six hours after they...
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder’s Plan to Reduce Law Enforcement Violence
From Silicon Valley to Hollywood, Californians lead the world with big ideas. For the latest installment of our “Big Think” series, we meet Patrisse Cullors. She is the director of truth and...
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Oakland Marchers Shut Down Freeway in Protest of Police Violence
A massive protest against police violence swept through downtown Oakland on Thursday evening, with hundreds of marchers taking over the Nimitz Freeway and shutting it down virtually all night in both...
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Dallas Police Officers Killed In Sniper Attack: What We Know Friday
This is a developing story. Last updated 10:58 a.m. ET A sniper attack in Dallas killed five police officers Thursday, in a bout of violence that didn’t end until a sniper who had fired on police died...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter Supporters Condemn Dallas Attack, Stress Ongoing Concerns
DALLAS — Supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement on Friday condemned the slayings of police in Dallas but stressed the tragedy should not lessen concerns over the killings of black men and women...
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L.A. Police Commission Says Officers’ Shooting of Black Woman Was ‘Within...
Los Angeles police officers’ use of force in the fatal shooting of a black woman last August was “within policy,” although some of the officers’ tactics were not, the city’s Board of Police...
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Police Shootings Add Momentum to Fresno Activism
Even though Fresno is a city similar in size to Oakland, people rarely take to the streets in large groups to protest police shootings. “This is a very conservative town,” says community organizer...
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