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A U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of an armed protester during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Texas was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday morning.

The College Board says changes will be made to its new AP African American studies course, after critics said the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework, including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life.

A U.S. Army sergeant was convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed protester in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice, a Texas jury ruled Friday.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials under then-President Donald Trump compiled intelligence dossiers on people who were arrested at Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon.

Police are searching for a person who they said changed a “Black Lives Matter” sign to read “Asian Lives Matter” in Palo Alto, something police said qualifies as a hate crime.

Police are searching for a person who they said changed a “Black Lives Matter” sign to read “Asian Lives Matter” in Palo Alto, something police said qualifies as a hate crime. Sharon Katsuda reports.

The mother of Trayvon Martin, who was unarmed and shot and killed in an altercation with an armed neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman, spoke out on the 10th anniversary of his death.

Project Knucklehead was inspired by the life experience of its founder and director, Dr. Amir Whitaker, who entered the juvenile justice system at the age of 15. Despite his tough start in life, he went on to earn five academic degrees and is now an educator, author and civil rights lawyer. “Never give up on the knuckleheads,” he says. Project...

Black employees at the U.S. Mint say they feel threatened and marginalized, The New York Times reported, citing an internal report.

Minneapolis photographer Uzoma Obasi was invited to shadow George Floyd’s family in the wake of his May 2020 murder that sparked mass protests across the country. He took more than 30,000 photos with the goal of “documenting the humanity around George.” NBCLX contributor Greg Bledsoe brings his Family Geography Project to Minneapolis to share Obasi’s powerful images and his story.