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More than a month after the death of George Floyd in police custody, rallies and protests have continued across the country. The crowds are made up of thousands of individuals, each with their own reasons for being there. Here are just a few of them, in their own words.

At a #BlackLivesMatter march in San Francisco, Iris Manriquez and Melissa Aceves explain the importance of being there, even during a pandemic.

Mom and youth advocate Lorraine Hanks explains why #BlackLivesMatter is important to her.

Young hip hop artists vtizzel and Barnzilla rap about injustice and corruption, and explain why the groundswell around #BlackLivesMatter is a moment not to be wasted.

Mom and parent organizer Mildred Coffey speaks about racial injustice and her commitment to #BlackLivesMatter.

Dhalimu Robinson, who moved to the Bay Area from Harlem, New York City, talks about the racial injustice he’s seen in both places.

Exhausted American cities are facing yet another challenge in addition to the coronavirus and the street protests over the police killing of George Floyd.

Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler is not in favor of the WNBA’s social justice plans and has sent a letter to Commissioner Cathy Engelbert objecting to the league’s initiatives to honor the Black Lives Matter movement when the season begins in Florida.

A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders have now pivoted to new targets.

Mississippi legislators have taken historic votes to remove a Confederate battle emblem from their state flag.

Young organizers are helping drive the outpouring of protest against racism and police brutality around the U.S.  Many have grown up seeing videos about deaths of people of color at the hands of police.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to protect federal monuments after a rash of recent incidents involving the vandalism of statues memorializing the Confederacy and some of the nation’s Founding Fathers.

Verizon is joining an escalating movement to siphon advertising away from Facebook in an effort to pressure the company into doing more to prevent racist and violent information from being shared on its social networking service.

The coronavirus pandemic and calls for racial equality have changed the nature of this year’s 50th anniversary LGBTQ Pride events.

Protesters are demanding the removal of two statues in Washington, D.C., that honor American presidents — one who owned enslaved people, and another who set them free. A group called The Freedom Neighborhood organized a protest Tuesday evening at Lincoln Park in Capitol Hill to call for the removal of a statue that depicts a freed Black man in shackles…

Officials in the historic South Carolina city of Charleston have unanimously voted to remove a statue of former vice president and slavery advocate John C

At a roundtable on the border wall on Tuesday, President Donald Trump offered to help states protect statues by imprisoning anyone caught defacing military monuments after accusing some state leaders of “being very weak in protecting their heritage and protecting their culture.” The president’s comments come after a growing call to remove statues honoring historical figures tied to slavery and...

Seattle’s mayor says the city will move to wind down the “occupied” protest zone following two recent shootings, including one that left a man dead.

In law enforcement, they’re referred to as “nonlethal” tools for dealing with demonstrations that turn unruly. Examples include rubber bullets, pepper spray, batons and flash-bangs.

A shooting in Seattle’s protest zone has left one person dead and another critically injured