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A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] including police brutality and other forms of violence. [10]
Civil rights activists and Smith's friends and family disputed the law enforcement accounts of the incident. Local organization Communities United Against Police Brutality held a press conference near the shooting site on June 4 to call for officials to release video footage and other details of the shooting.
For example, the Freedom in the World index lists the United States 53rd in the world for civil and political rights, with 83 out of 100 points as of 2023; [7] [8] the Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters Without Borders, put the U.S. 55th out of 180 countries in 2024, [9] the Democracy Index, published by the Economist Intelligence Unit ...
In the longer term, advocates and supporters of the LGBTQ community are backing the proposed Fair and Equal Housing Act, which would amend current civil rights law to ban discrimination on the ...
America’s largest LGBT+ civil rights group issues ‘state of emergency’ across US ...
The Civil Rights Movement fought for equal access to education and voting rights, today, we must fight for equal access to financial knowledge with the same vigor.
Civil rights activists speak about the killing of Amir Locke, February 2, 2022. At 6:48 a.m. on February 2, 2022, Minneapolis Police Department officer Mark Hanneman [204] fatally shot Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man, while police officers were executing a search warrant at an apartment in downtown Minneapolis. The shooting occurred nine ...
Major civil rights march at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. 250,000 gathered for the event. 1965 November 27 March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam Organized by the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE). An estimated 250,000 attended.