If there won’t be peace, then let there be a lesson in the destruction of Black bodies. Let the funerals of those…

Where, exactly, does social media and movement building intersect?

When people my age think of the Black Lives Matter uprising, many picture young people taking to the streets and…

On Friday, activists from across the country will commemorate the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington with…

A global pandemic. Police violence. Protests. An economic crisis. Our democracy at risk—and with it, many of the…

Tarana Burke knows better than most the power of a hashtag. After all, hers—#MeToo—turned into a zeitgeist moment…

Imagine it’s 2070. History classes all over the U.S. teach the 2020 Black Lives Matter Uprisings and the national…

Boxes containing more than 2,000 Black Lives Matter cloth face masks intended to protect protesters were seized by…

By now, Shaun King should be used to the drama.

Spike Lee’s third film, Do The Right Thing, turns 30 years old on Sunday, July 21, but its message is so fresh that…

Activist icon Angela Davis and Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) spearheaded a rally Tuesday in…

America has a history of secretly surveilling black organizations that gather in the name of equal rights. It…

The ability of the Parkland, Fla., school-shooting victims to organize nationwide gun control rallies less than six…

I’ve been processing seemingly contradictory emotions since the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. I am at once in awe…

There is vibranium-level energy around Black Panther as millions of melanated people flock to theaters. Of course,…

There’s no other way to put it: 2017 was bleak. Bleak because the country’s top public health organization is now…

Daniel Shaver, 26, is dead. Mesa, Ariz., Police Officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, 27, a cowboy armed with an…

From the days of COINTELPRO—the targeting of black human rights leaders and sowing dissent within the ranks of black…

They are trying to turn black people into the bogeyman. They want everyone else in America to see us as a threat so…

Unlike some other celebs, Halle Berry did not embarrass herself when asked about the Movement for Black Lives. The…