The Latest Breaking News from Black Lives Matter

In the decade since Black Lives Matter, a spotlight has shined on inequity in education outcomes and, in particular, how exclusionary discipline disproportionately affects Black children

Federal labor law limits employers' ability to fire employees for "engag[ing] in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection." (It also limits unions' ability to discipline members for their speech on union matters.) But, unlike the laws in some states, it doesn't…

Police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson arrested two people and said more arrests were likely following protests on the 10th anniversary of a shooting that was a pivotal moment in the national Black Lives Matter movement

Michael Brown’s death was the catalyst for massive change starting in Ferguson, Missouri

Claims riots policed differently to other disorder dismissed as ‘deliberate racist and Islamophobic dog-whistle’

Critics and the far right have claimed previous protests - including those in 2011 after the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan and the Black Lives Matters demonstrations in 2020 - were policed ‘more favourably’ than racist demonstrations that have spanned the UK since murders in Southport

Idea has been propagated by Tommy Robinson and others from far right but claim does not stand up to scrutiny

In today’s newsletter: Voices from Tommy Robinson to Nigel Farage have complained of ‘two-tier policing’ – but their claims do not add up

BLM supporter Soulman Freeman denies criminal damage