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Joe Biden will meet with George Floyd’s family in Houston Monday
The former vice president is also recording a video message that will play at the funeral service.
Inside A Black Family’s Cross-Country RV Trip
“Y’all are crazy!” That’s what the majority of my friends said when I told them my husband and 6-month-pregnant self were suddenly thinking of taking...
Live From The Uprising: M4BL x ESSENCE Discuss Defunding Police, Defending Black Lives
Saturday, June 6, in a wide-ranging, powerful conversation, Mary Hooks, Director, Southerners on New Ground (S.O.N.G.); Kandace Montgomery, Director, Organizers with Black Visions; and Miski...

Congressional Democrats to unveil police reform package next week
The legislation, called the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, includes an array of measures aimed at boosting law enforcement accountability, changing police practices and...

Furor in Texas GOP after leaders post racist memes that suggest Floyd’s death is a hoax
County party leaders post a variety of racist memes, including one suggesting Floyd's death was a hoax to harm Trump and another juxtaposing an MLK...

‘Vicious dogs’ versus ‘a scared man’: Trump feud with Bowser escalates amid police brutality protests
The once-temperate relationship between the president and the D.C. mayor erupted in an ugly schism freighted with the overtones of race and power that have...
America convulses amid a week of protests, but can it change?
The events of recent days suggest something profound has happened, though it may be years before the country knows whether it has moved closer to...
Rev. Al Sharpton: America, ‘Get Your Knee Off Our Necks’
Rev. Al Sharpton denounced America’s racist system this week, announcing a new March on Washington in late August on the anniversary of the historic 1963...
Biden tries to seize the moment amid George Floyd protests | The 2020 Fix
The Fix’s Eugene Scott breaks down how presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has reacted to the death of George Floyd.

Mattis is the latest Trump official to go from hero to zero in the president’s telling
Trump fills top government posts with people he later blasts. Why is that?