The Latest Breaking News from George Floyd

America is ready for real change to the criminal justice system. At day one of the American Workforce and Justice Summit in Atlanta, activists and business leaders tell Josh Marcus what needs to be done

The judge in the civil rights cases of four former police officers in the killing of George Floyd said that he has accepted Derek Chauvin's plea agreement and will sentence him to 20 to 25 years.

Chauvin has filed a motion to have his conviction overturned

The judge overseeing the federal civil rights cases of four former Minneapolis police officers in the killing of George Floyd has accepted the terms of Derek Chauvin’s plea agreement and will sentence him to 20 to 25 years in prison

Simply depicting the events that led to the death of a former marine leaves audiences to draw their own parallels with the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor

Trump made statements condoning and encouraging violence throughout his presidency.

‘Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?’ Mr Trump asked, according to former secretary of defense Mark Esper

Between late June and mid-July 2020, Pilon left five nooses with handwritten notes in different areas

Jeneal Hobbs can rattle off the stories her children tell her about their days in the Pennridge School District: the white student holding cotton and yelling in the hallway, “Hey everyone, I’m Black.” A school bus accident in which the police were called and a white child told one of…

‘You gotta sit here and listen to this because I think the president of the United States is having a nervous breakdown or something, and it’s scary’

I spent the 2020 spring break week setting up to teach my college courses online while helping to care for my 14-month-old grandchild, whose daycare had closed. At the same time, I couldn’t help thinking, being the sociologist I am, of the devastating consequences of COVID-19 I saw for women…