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Hundreds of people in some Massachusetts cities plan to mark July Fourth with continued demonstrations against systemic racism. Nearly a thousand people indicated on Facebook they plan to attend a march and rally organized by Black Lives Matter Boston to celebrate Black women. The “Say Her Name March and Rally” began at 4 p.m. at Nubian Square in Roxbury and…

Mississippi legislators have taken historic votes to remove a Confederate battle emblem from their state flag.

Young organizers are helping drive the outpouring of protest against racism and police brutality around the U.S.  Many have grown up seeing videos about deaths of people of color at the hands of police.

Over the past several weeks, as the United States reckoned with the relationship between police and people of color, we went to five protests around Boston to capture what brought participants into the streets in their words. We came away with portraits of dozens of people of many races, nationalities, ages and reasons for protesting. One of the questions we…

As protesters pushed for racial justice and police reform in Boston, our reporters interviewed them to find out why they’re making their voices heard and what their message is in their own words.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to protect federal monuments after a rash of recent incidents involving the vandalism of statues memorializing the Confederacy and some of the nation’s Founding Fathers.

NBC10 Boston asked over 50 protesters across five rallies about their message to people who are against the Black Lives Matter movement. These are some of their responses.

Verizon is joining an escalating movement to siphon advertising away from Facebook in an effort to pressure the company into doing more to prevent racist and violent information from being shared on its social networking service.

The coronavirus pandemic and calls for racial equality have changed the nature of this year’s 50th anniversary LGBTQ Pride events.

Protesters are demanding the removal of two statues in Washington, D.C., that honor American presidents — one who owned enslaved people, and another who set them free. A group called The Freedom Neighborhood organized a protest Tuesday evening at Lincoln Park in Capitol Hill to call for the removal of a statue that depicts a freed Black man in shackles…

Officials in the historic South Carolina city of Charleston have unanimously voted to remove a statue of former vice president and slavery advocate John C

Youth activists are blocking a major intersection in downtown Boston after holding a rally at City Hall calling on Mayor Marty Walsh to redirect funding for police to social programs. People were sitting in crosswalks at the five-way intersection of Congress and State streets where, 250 years ago, the Boston Massacre took place. Tuesday’s protest has been peaceful, with police…

At a roundtable on the border wall on Tuesday, President Donald Trump offered to help states protect statues by imprisoning anyone caught defacing military monuments after accusing some state leaders of “being very weak in protecting their heritage and protecting their culture.” The president’s comments come after a growing call to remove statues honoring historical figures tied to slavery and...

Seattle’s mayor says the city will move to wind down the “occupied” protest zone following two recent shootings, including one that left a man dead.

Protesters called for racial justice and denounced police brutality in Boston Sunday, as calls for change continue a month after the death of George Floyd.

Protesters called for racial justice and denounced police brutality in Boston Sunday, as calls for change continue a month after the death of George Floyd. On Sunday morning, protesters gathered in Roxbury’s Nubian Square for a Father’s Day protest and rally beginning at 10 a.m. The rally came amid weeks of protests across the nation after the death of...

In law enforcement, they’re referred to as “nonlethal” tools for dealing with demonstrations that turn unruly. Examples include rubber bullets, pepper spray, batons and flash-bangs.

Hundreds of protesters are expected in Boston Sunday. Nia Hamm has the latest on one of the two scheduled protests for today.

A shooting in Seattle’s protest zone has left one person dead and another critically injured

A newspaper report says the former Atlanta police officer charged with felony murder  in the fatal shooting of an African American man was involved in another shooting five years ago that left a man with a punctured lung