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.

Before she was a hashtag or a headline, before protesters around the country chanted her name, Breonna Taylor was a 26-year-old woman who played cards with her aunts and fell asleep watching movies with friends.

Minneapolis agreed Friday to ban chokeholds by police and to require officers to try to stop any other officers they see using improper force, in the first concrete steps to remake the city’s police department since George Floyd’s death.

“ 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.

The Word Network, a white-owned, religious-oriented cable and satellite channel directed at black viewers, recently came under fire and was accused of bigotry—a problematic accusation for a network that bills itself “the largest African-American network in the world.”

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.

Netflix’s “Dear White People” star Logan Browning’s name is buzzing around mainstream Hollywood, but she hasn’t forgotten her faith roots. The actress and social activist, 30, who was brought up in the Baptist church, says Christianity fuels her fight for racial equality and justice.

Authorities say Joshua Brown, a key witness in the Amber Guyger murder trial, was shot and killed in a drug deal gone bad. Dallas police say they have identified three Louisiana men linked to the crime, but skeptics suspect a police cover-up and doubt the validity of the story.

Many in mainstream media regularly report the number of alleged lies President Donald Trump has told. But Friday, he spoke indisputable truth. “You built this nation,” he told a room full of nearly 300 African Americans gathered inside the White House’s East Room.

Judges don’t usually hug convicted murderers in the courtroom or hand them Bibles before sending them off to prison. That is what made Judge Tammy Kemp’s actions so extraordinary in the closing moments of the trial of a white former Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor.

A Texas jury flat out rejected former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger’s absurd and bogus self-defense claims in the fatal 2018 shooting of an innocent man eating ice cream in his own home. The 12-member jury convicted the 31-year-old of murder for shooting Botham Jean.

The searing TV series on the plight of the Central Park Five created a memorable Emmy moment Sunday when the five exonerated men stood and were honored at the awards show. The surrounds true story of five minority teens coerced into confessing to a rape they didn’t commit in 1989

The Women’s March severed ties with three inaugural board members after allegations of anti-Semitism swirled and threatened to overshadow the organization’s grassroots work. Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland and Linda Sarsour will transition off of the board and shift their focus to other advocacy projects.

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.

Dr. Bernice King, youngest daughter of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., admits she has an issue with some of her white Christian counterparts that seem okay with the racially divisive climate of the day. “I’m struggling real bad with my brothers and sisters in the white evangelical church,” she confesses.

esus said in Matthew 23:11, “The greatest among you will be your servant,” and this is the scripture Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King, daughter of Coretta Scott King and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., grew up hearing most.