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Murder has increased 16 percent across major U.S. cities during the first half of 2021 when compared to the same period in 2020, and by 42 percent when compared to 2019, according to a Thursday update to the Council on Criminal Justice’s (CCJ) pandemic crime report.

Costa Rican gymnast Luciana Alvarado paid tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement at the end of her first-floor routine at the Toyko Olympics on Sunday.

Witnesses say lightning struck a mural for George Floyd in Toledo, Ohio, leading to its collapse and destroying the structure.

The U.N. human rights chief on Monday called on the world to immediately dismantle systemic racism against people of African descent and “make amends” to the oppressed — including reparation payments while groups like Black Lives Matter should receive “funding, public recognition and support.”

CNN contributor Van Jones reacted with emotion Friday on “Newsroom” to the 22-and-a-half year sentence of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.

Major British retailer Marks & Spencer is a bastion of bourgeois respectability. It has never been edgy or fashion-forward.

The city of Newark, New Jersey, will replace a monument of 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus with a statue depicting abolitionist and political activist Harriet Tubman, the city’s mayor announced.

“I am ashamed of Senator Whitehouse and his affiliation with this racist club. Him coming out and speaking about ending systemic racism while belonging to a ‘whites only’ private club is hypocrisy as it worst,” Executive Director of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island Brother Gary Dantzler

A contrite Billie Eilish said she is “appalled and embarrassed” after an old video of herself as an early teenager mouthing a racist slur resurfaced on social media, but denied mocking Asian accents.

The NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus were silent after news broke that Sen.Whitehouse defended his membership at an all-white club.

A New Jersey city offered a tribute to George Floyd Wednesday by unveiling a 700-pound bronze statue of him outside Newark’s City Hall.

Liberal Nashville composer Daniel Elder — who denounced arson at a Black Lives Matter riot last May — still remains canceled one year later, as his publisher has blackballed him, and local choral directors refuse to program his music for fear of receiving backlash. The musician says that after being canceled, he “started listening to voices on the right and the center,” which “shook me out of my prejudices.”

In response to an explosive report last week which revealed President Joe Biden’s son Hunter using the N-word multiple times in text messages with his attorney, Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight posted a powerful video Sunday, blasting the hypocrisy of the left and media for justifying Hunter Biden’s racism “while the Trump family were harassed night and day.”

Ashville, North Carolina’s police department (APD) has seen 84 officers leave since January 2020 and is now making clear it will no longer respond to theft calls.

A woke Maine superintendent said an anti-CRT parent may attend his daughters’ graduation if he meets certain “conditions” and “expectations.”

Republicans in the Senate are now saying that legislation focused on policing should be addressed before the summer break or dropped.

Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t visited the southern border yet in the midst of an illegal immigration crisis, but she has found time to hold a meeting with rapper Lil Baby, who protested law enforcement during the Grammy Awards by standing on a police car during a Black Live Matter-themed performance.

L.A. Lakers star LeBron James has added his voice to those in the NBA urging Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

Left-wing Hollywood activists paid tribute to George Floyd on the anniversary of his death, which sparked violent riots and protests across the country for months on end, proclaiming that Floyd’s name is “forever etched in our consciousness” and urging activists to “stay in the fight.”

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on Spectrum’s “News 1 Los Angeles” that Republicans didn’t seem to care about “rogue cops” who she alleged targeted people of color.

Prompted by their legal team, the Floyd family raised their fists in protest as Floyd’s daughter Giana Floyd said, “Say his name!”

The Los Angeles Times reports Tuesday, on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, that President Joe Biden has “struggle[d] to make progress on racial issues,” despite making the Black Lives Matter movement central to his 2020 campaign.

President Joe Biden failed to pass a police reform bill by his self-imposed deadline of May 25, or the anniversary of George Floyd’s death. 

Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama paid tribute to George Floyd on the one-year anniversary of his death, urging Americans to turn action into “meaningful reform” and concluding that the last year — which saw a wave of violent protests and riots resulting in injured police officers and damaged businesses — has “given us reasons to hope.”

Sounds of gunshots rang out near Minneapolis’ George Floyd Square today as people gathered to marked one year since Floyd’s death.

Moving to claw back interest after a resounding rejection by the British public in the last two elections amid a lurch to the woke left, the Labour Party released a series of Black Lives Matter inspired policy proposals on the

Meghan McCain told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that “racism is still a big problem in this country.”

Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Craig Melvin Reports” that lawmaker’s work “to affirm once and for all that Black Lives Matter” must go beyond the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

More than one in three Britons have said that race relations have gotten worse since the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020.

Britain’s National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has announced a new Police Plan of Action on Inclusion and Race and Independent Oversight and Scrutiny Board in response to the death of George Floyd in the United States. 

wice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton paid homage to George Floyd, who died a year ago today after an incident with former Minneapolis police office Derek Chauvin, telling activists “don’t stop pushing.”

As the first anniversary of Minneapolis man George Floyd’s death nears, the NBA Social Justice Coalition is urging Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Bill.

China’s government-controlled media outlets used the anniversary of the death of Minnesota man George Floyd on Tuesday to condemn “U.S. society” for its allegedly irreparable racist core, asking if Floyd was “the Rosa Parks of our time.”

The superintendent of the school district for Cumberland and North Yarmouth, Maine, denied to Breitbart News his district uses Critical Race Theory (CRT), and referred to a parent who has vehemently opposed woke education as “a vile person.”

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will kneel during an event in Harlem marking the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, according to a Monday report.