The sound of the djembe drums started as a low tremble and grew more distinct as the musicians drew closer to the hundreds gathered inside the Memphis church.

Friends and family remember the unarmed Black man brutally murdered by police.

The U.S. Justice Department announced civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose fatal shooting contributed to the racial justice protests that rocked the U.S. in the spring and summer of 2020.

A Black man was unarmed when Akron police chased him on foot and killed him in a hail of gunfire.

What is happening with Black Lives Matter? Has there been financial impropriety? No, insists Patrisse Cullors, former leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Despite swirling allegations, she maintains that neither she nor anyone else in leadership misused millions of dollars in donations.

Former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke left prison on Thursday after serving less than half of his nearly seven-year sentence for killing Black teenager Laquan McDonald, angering community leaders who feel the white officer’s punishment didn’t fit his crime.

The family of Lauren Smith-Fields is suing Bridgeport, Connecticut over city authorities’ handling of the 23-year-old’s untimely death. Loved ones of the deceased are also requesting that an independent agency be brought in to take over the investigation into the mysterious death.

The jury reached a verdict Tuesday at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, the Black man who was pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck in a case that set off a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.

Jury selection in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death began Tuesday with the first potential juror excused after she revealed during questioning that she thought the way the officer acted was “not fair.”

Louisville has hired Atlanta’s former chief to lead its police department after months of unrest over the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor and fired two more officers involved in the deadly raid.

A Wisconsin prosecutor declined to file charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in the back in Kenosha, concluding he couldn’t disprove the officer’s contention that he acted in self-defense because he feared the man would stab him.

A Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for the killing of Breonna Taylor during a drug raid gone wrong, with prosecutors saying Wednesday two officers who fired their weapons at the Black woman were justified in using force to protect themselves.

Though some have characterized him as a violent criminal who was resisting arrest and got what was coming to him, democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris said she believes in “due process,” and when it comes to Blake’s shooting, “I cannot see how anybody could reason that, that was justifiable.”

acob Blake, the Black man shot multiple times by police in Wisconsin, is paralyzed, and it would “take a miracle” for him to walk again, his family’s attorney said Tuesday, while calling for the officer who opened fire to be arrested and others involved to lose their jobs.

The artist who in 2016 became the first woman and first African American to win the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition talked to the magazine about the deceased 26-year-old and the experience of bringing here to life in the oil-on-linen portrait.

O, The Oprah Magazine, featuring Breonna Taylor on its cover, is flying off shelves in her Louisville, Kentucky hometown and was already sold out at Carmichael's Bookstore and Barnes & Noble by Tuesday afternoon.

DENVER (AP) — The parents of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after officers in suburban Denver stopped him on the street last year and put him in a chokehold, sued police and medical officials Tuesday.

A white couple pointed guns at protesters in St. Louis as a group marched toward the mayor’s home to demand her resignation after she read the names and addresses of several residents who supported defunding the police department during an online briefing.

Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, taking part in a funeral filled with historical echoes and a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too many times before.