Change.org and New York-based community foundation, North Star Fund, announced more than 35 Black-led organizations across the United States that will receive grant funding from Change.org's $5.5 million Racial Justice Fund.

“ Just Mercy ” is the real story of civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson and his fight to keep an innocent black man from being executed. It is urgent, searing and powerful, led by a first-rate cast. Though it portrays events more than 25 years ago, it is very much a film of 2019.

Grammy-winning gospel artist Kirk Franklin says he’s boycotting the Gospel Music Association’s Dove Awards after they edited out part of his acceptance speech earlier this month in which he called for prayers after a white police officer shot Atatiana Jefferson, a black woman, in her home.

A white former Fort Worth police officer charged with murder after shooting a black woman through a window of her home has been released on bond, and the department told a grieving community that investigators would ensure “no stone is left unturned” in the search for answers.

It has not even been two weeks since former Texas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years for killing an innocent black man, Botham Jean, in his own home. Now, another white Texas officer has fatally shot a black woman inside her home after being called to do a welfare check.

Christian athlete Maya Moore shocked the basketball world when she stepped away from the WNBA earlier this year before the season began. She’s spent a lot of her time away from the game trying to help a family friend, Jonathan Irons, get his conviction overturned. Learn more about it.

President Trump is upset with two vocal social justice advocates for their failure to publicly recognize his administration’s efforts to reduce racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Online, he called out “boring” singer John Legend and his “foul-mouthed” wife Chrissy Teigen, setting off a war of words.

Billionaire rapper Sean “Jay-Z” Carter recently said black folks are “past kneeling” as a form of protest, and “The View” co-host, Sunny Hostin, didn’t like that one bit. She called his statement flat-out “ridiculous” and “insensitive” on during her first day back on air following summer vacation.

Prayers and support are pouring in since news broke that after five years of investigations and protests, a New York City police officer has been fired for the chokehold death of an unarmed black man in 2014. Emerald Snipes Garner, daughter of the deceased Eric Garner, is thankful the action was taken.