Black Lives Matter
Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Black Lives Matter, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 265 stories have been published about Black Lives Matter which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Black Lives Matter, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 265 stories have been published about Black Lives Matter which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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Crime · LouisvilleFour current and former Louisville Metro Police Department officers involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor's home were arrested on Thursday and charged with civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction offenses, Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference Thursday. Joshua Jaynes, Kelly Goodlett and Kyle Meany were charged with submitting a false affidavit to search Taylor's home, and then worked together to create a "false cover story in an attempt to escape responsibility for their roles in preparing the warrant affidavit that contained false information.See the Story
DOJ files civil rights charges against four Louisville officers over Breonna Taylor killing
48% Center coverage: 204 sources
Black Lives Matter · AtlantaThe three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia neighborhood face a second round of criminal penalties. Travis McMichael, his father Greg McMichael and neighbor William Roddie Bryan face possible life sentences. A state Superior Court judge imposed life sentences for all three men in January for Arbery's murder.See the Story
Ahmaud Arbery killers could face life in prison for federal hate-crimes charges
77% Center coverage: 75 sources
Crime · BrunswickA judge sentenced Travis McMichael to life in prison on Monday for committing federal hate crimes in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man shot while jogging through a mostly white Georgia neighborhood in a case that probed issues of racist violence and vigilantism in America.
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Travis McMichael gets life sentence for Arbery hate crimes
51% Center coverage: 53 sources
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Europe · LondonThe English Premier League has limited the anti-racism gesture of taking the knee to certain matches in the 2022/23 season. Players will take the knee during the opening match round of the season, dedicated No Room for Racism match rounds in October and March. The gesture has drawn criticism from some fans and politicians including UK Home Secretary Priti Patel who accused the England team of participating in gesture politics.See the Story
Footballers to no longer take the knee before every Premier League game
36% Left coverage: 36 sources
Europe · BristolRoy Hackett was seen as one of the most important voices of the civil rights movement. He was a leader of the Bristol bus boycott in 1963 - a campaign which aimed to end discrimination in employment. The council-run Bristol Omnibus Company had refused to employ black people, claiming it was because white people would not want to use their service. He helped overturn a ban by Bristol Omnibus Company on employing black and Asian drivers and conductors. See the Story
Civil rights campaigner and Bristol bus boycott organiser Roy Hackett has died aged 93
50% Left coverage: 18 sources
Black Lives Matter · BostonDonovan Johnson was minutes away from home after leaving work in February 2021. White officer who had been chasing the white suspect ran up to Johnson, drew his gun and threw him to the snow-covered ground face first. Lawsuit filed against the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, and three of its officers.See the Story
Lawsuit claims police chasing white suspect wrongly arrest Black man
47% Left coverage: 15 sources
Twitter · BuffaloA Black resident of Buffalo, New York, told investigators he anonymously tweeted out a fake threat to commit mass killings against Black people in his community, days after a real mass shooting, because he wanted to see if racists would cheer him on, according to federal prosecutors.
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Buffalo man accused of threatening to kill Black people at grocery stores
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Black Lives Matter · AtlantaEveryone who moves through downtown Atlanta today passes places where innocent Black men and women were pulled from trolleys, shot in their workplaces, chased through the streets and beaten to death by a mob of 10,000 white men and boys.See the Story
Atlanta's image challenged by facts of 1906 race massacre
54% Center coverage: 13 sources
Black Lives Matter · CaliforniaBlack Lives Matter activist Shaun King lashed out at a report claiming he had spent $40k worth of donations to purchase a large guard dog. The report was documented at the Free Beacon and said King had used money donated to his political PAC named Grassroots Law. The PAC made two payments adding up to $40,650 to Potrero Performance Dogs in California in December and February, according to the report.See the Story
Controversial BLM activist Shaun King’s PAC paid over $40K for guard dog: report
75% Right coverage: 12 sources
Black Lives Matter · FranklintonFranklinton Arts District: "We are deeply saddened by the most recent vandalism displayed at The Vanderelli Room" Most of the damage was to "Stolen Joy," a Black Lives Matter mural by local artist Katie Golonka. The group added that it would "not let the hate of others silence the message that there is an outbreak of racism"See the Story
Black Lives Matter mural, other art vandalized at Franklinton art studios
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Black Lives Matter · PortlandIn 2020, Sebastian Gracie Fultz became captivated by the Black Lives Matter movement when they read an article on the murder of George Floyd and the protests against police brutality.See the Story
Student not afraid to speak up for social justice
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