Tag: Trayvon Martin

Mothers of police brutality victims praise Clinton

Mothers of police brutality victims praise Clinton

Kelly Cohen · March 11, 2016 2:22 pm

Clinton campaign releases second Morgan Freeman ad

Clinton campaign releases second Morgan Freeman ad

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 21, 2016 6:39 pm

"The Republican candidates have vowed to roll back all of these sensible measures [taken by President Obama]. And many of them have shown open contempt for the simple notion that Black Lives Matter," Sybrina Fulton argues. (AP file photo/Bill Boyce)

Trayvon Martin’s mother endorses Hillary Clinton

Kelly Cohen · January 11, 2016 6:23 pm

Clinton talks with mother of Trayvon Martin

Clinton talks with mother of Trayvon Martin

Ariel Cohen · November 3, 2015 8:38 am

Alicia Garza spoke at the Black Women's Roundtable forum at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 16. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Black Lives Matter won’t give nod to 2016 candidate

Robert King · September 19, 2015 3:13 pm

Demonstrators march past police officers in New York, Friday, May 1, 2015. About 1,000 protesters decrying police brutality marched in Manhattan at a May Day rally that took on a new message amid national outrage over a Baltimore man's death in police custody. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

#BlackLivesMatter’s agenda is costing black lives

Michael Barone · September 7, 2015 4:01 am

Speaking at an event on the campus of Lehman College in the Bronx, N.Y., President Obama said the country will Ã¢â¬Åprofit or payÃ¢â¬ï¿½ for what the young men in poor communities across the country become. (AP Photo)Â

Obama: Helping young men from poor areas will be ‘my life’s work’

Susan Crabtree · May 4, 2015 8:54 pm

President Obama will announce Monday the launch of My Brother's Keeper Alliance, a new independent nonprofit. (AP Photo)

Obama to announce expansion in ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative

Kelly Cohen · May 4, 2015 3:06 pm

President Obama once again urged America to do some soul-searching and commit to helping impoverished black communities gripped with unemployment, drug addiction and educational inequality. (AP)

The limits of Obama’s Baltimore soul-searching

Susan Crabtree · April 29, 2015 9:00 am

The case Ferguson wanted to be occurred April 4 in South Carolina, when white police officer Michael Slager fired eight shots into the back of the black Walter Scott. (AP Photo)Â

Four cases, four different stories

Noemie Emery · April 14, 2015 9:00 am

Flowers and stones are placed near the scene where Walter Scott was killed by a North Charleston, S.C., police officer Saturday. (AP Photo)Â

Race relations in America have never been better

Dan Hannan · April 13, 2015 9:00 am

President Obama walks with Jani Bergdahl and her husband, Bob Bergdahl, after he spoke about the release of their son, U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Saturday, May 31, 2014. Ten months later, the Army has charged Bergdahl with desertion. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Despite conservatives’ fears, feds tend to shy away from angry mobs

Ashe Schow · March 26, 2015 6:57 pm