A recently unearthed video has captured then-Sen. Kamala Harris voicing support for the "defund the police" movement in 2020, despite the Biden campaign saying otherwise just months later after she ...
We’re just a little over eight months removed from summer 2020’s Black Lives Movement protests. After the latest in an unfortunate cycle of Black lives senselessly ended by law enforcement, the ...
If there's any baggage to take from 2020 it's this: This was the year of our reckoning, when the social justice movement took centre stage, and activism became a part of more and more people's lives.
More than one year since the death of George Floyd sent shockwaves through the nation, experts say the movement to slash police budgets amid calls for law enforcement reform has struggled to maintain ...
Critics have blasted it as undermining support for police officers. Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, and other police-involved ...
An event in 2021 in remembrance of George Floyd outside the Minnesota state capitol in St. Paul. (Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images) Support for the Black Lives Matter movement, which began as an ...
The year 2020 has been defined by the coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the US presidential election. These massive news events also fuelled a growing far-right movement ...
George Floyd’s death reignited the BLM movement and inspired a new generation of activists. They are young, fearless and ready to rebuild the system. They aren’t taking no for an answer. They are the ...
Social justice movements swept through the U.S. in 2020, and calls for defunding police came along with them. Leaders of the country's largest cities listened, and police budgets were cut in many ...
In the late 1980s, Peggy Shepard helped lead the charge against noxious emissions wafting from a sewage plant in her Harlem neighborhood, a fight that forced New York City to enact fixes and spurred ...
The tea party movement was just getting started when I began writing a history of the Republican Party in 2009. I viewed the movement as the latest iteration of a basically cyclical populist ...