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At a Jamaica Plain vigil and protest on Thursday evening, peaceful protesters told NBC10 Boston what they’re fighting for.

Dozens of people protested outside of Gov. Charlie Baker’s Massachusetts home Wednesday to make their voices heard on the state’s eviction moratorium.

Protesters marched in Louisville, Ky., after a grand jury did not charge three Louisville police officers for Breonna Taylor’s shooting death.

Thirteen people who are accused of committing crimes while participating in a civil disturbance in Lancaster on Sunday night sat behind bars Tuesday, with bail for seven of them set at $1 million.

Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs offered a symbolic gesture of support for racial injustice ahead of the NFL’s first game of the season Thursday, NBC News reports.

Members of the Sharon Teachers Association will gather in the town’s center Wednesday to call for a full-remote start to the school year, citing safety concerns in the school buildings.

A leading opposition activist in Belarus is being held after she resisted attempts by to deport her to Ukraine as part of a crackdown on protests of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was investigating the fatal shooting of a Black man by two deputies Monday afternoon.

Calls for racial and social justice continued Sunday across Massachusetts, one week after 29-year-old Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. About 150 people attended a rally Sunday night at Nubian Square in Roxbury where they demanded justice for Blake and other victims of police shootings. “The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns…

A rally was held Sunday night at Nubian square in Roxbury to demand justice for Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by police seven times in his back in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Rallies are happening Sunday across the state of Massachusetts in continued calls for social justice.

In a call to end systemic racism, activists are gathering in Boston Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic and social unrest over police abuse of power. A demonstration scheduled for Friday afternoon is intended to highlight social justice issues including police reform, voter suppression and bigotry, according to organizers, mirroring Friday’s Commitment March in the country’s capitol. Commemorating the March...

In a call to end systemic racism, organizers, activists and social justice groups will march from the Parkman Bandstand in Boston Common to the State House steps Friday.

Protesters gathered outside the Northwest D.C. home of the postmaster general Saturday morning after the U.S. Postal Service warned states that it can’t guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be counted. Hundreds marched through the streets of Adams Morgan, the neighborhood where Postmaster General Louis DeJoy lives. They staged a...

A group of parents gathered outside the State House Wednesday to call on Gov. Charlie Baker to bring students back to the classrooms this fall. A “Make Way for Education” protest, organized by the group Bring Kids Back MA, started at 3:30 p.m. Demonstrators are demanding that the Baker administration develop a “transparent, metrics-based” guide for school districts to reopen…

Protesters in Boston called on Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to send children back to school in-person despite a recent increase in coronavirus cases.

A group of parents are gathering outside the State House Wednesday, calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to bring students back to the classrooms this fall.

The newly elected district attorney in Portland, Oregon, has announced a new policy that means that cases will be dismissed against dozens — and possibly several hundred — people arrested on lesser charges at the ongoing protests in Oregon’s largest city

With a little over a month left before the new school year is set to begin, the Boston Public School system is still trying to figure out how students will return in the fall.

Clashes outside a U.S. courthouse in Portland, Oregon, have largely stopped since Democratic Gov. Kate Brown reached a deal that called for the draw down of federal agents sent by the Trump administration