Philadelphia recently named a street after the city’s first Black mayor, W. Wilson Goode Sr. Activists say that the renaming hurts given that Goode facilitated the fatal 1985 bombing of the home where the Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE lived. Colorlines captured an October protest imbued with spirituality. 

Bay Area activists have long maintained that the annual Urban Shield SWAT training and expo promotes police militarization under the guise of emergency preparedness. Here’s how they shut it down. 

The southern border isn’t the only theater of immigration-based family separation. In New York City, Debora Berenice Barrios-Vasquez is fighting to stay in the U.S. with her two young citizen children. 

During last weekend’s Women’s March anniversary, we talked to folks in Las Vegas and New York City about a prevailing issue that keeps many people of color from participating in elections: voter suppression.

Hundreds of ‘DREAMers’ descended on Trump Tower in New York City to declare that they are “undocumented and unafraid” of the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

It’s also about justice and how people of color are suffering the most.

We interviewed a range of LGBTQ activists of color at last week’s Creating Change conference in Philadelphia and found that there still is strength in numbers.

Jacqueline Craig’s attorney: ”I don’t care how many Black faces [the Fort Worth Police Department puts] in uniform, they put a message out that our lives are less valuable.”

The district attorney dropped charges against 16-year-old Johnnae Pendleton for allegedly assaulting the officer.

A video attributed to Scott Michael Greene showed him holding Confederate and American flags in front of Black game attendees. Another video he took depicts his interactions with school officials after being ejected.  

Media Matters for America breaks down how strict voter ID laws lock Black and Latinx people out of the electoral process.

Fusion’s Yasmin Nouh says that both major parties are guilty of placing the burden on American Muslims to combat terrorism.

The controversial video shows Larnie Thomas, a Black man, as he is grabbed by a plainclothes officer while walking in the street to bypass construction.

Multiracial people with wide-reaching ethnic origins speak candidly about their experiences in this new video from NBC Asian America.

Former officer Jason Stockley faces first-degree murder charges for his role in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith.

Fusion’s Charles Pulliam-Moore: “Ultimately, those sorts of things, they’re about performing what a good cop looks like, not actually being a good cop.”

From the n-word to the anti-immigrant threats, this dispatch from The New York Times is NSFW.

The MC and producer, best known for his videos satirizing rap music tropes, went off on police violence and America’s vilification of Black people.

Dwyane Wade: “The racial profiling has to stop. The shoot to kill mentality has to stop. Not seeing the value of Black and Brown bodies has to stop.”

Mic partnered up with Keys and her We Are The Movement organization for this recreation of its previous “23 Everyday Actions” video.