Fatal shooting of Black teen roils liberal Oregon town
A white man is accused of killing Aidan Ellison who was playing loud music in a motel parking lot on November 23.
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A white man is accused of killing Aidan Ellison who was playing loud music in a motel parking lot on November 23.
The coronavirus pandemic has put the U.S. medical system under tremendous strain, and waiting in the wings are medical students who have to learn under circumstances vastly different from their mentors. Jamie Ducharme, a Time staff writer focusing on health, joins CBSN to talk about her latest article, "How U.S. Medical Schools Are Training a Post-Pandemic Generation of Doctors."
Four police officers in Paris have been charged after they allegedly beat a Black music producer, Michel Zecler, at his studio earlier this month. The investigation comes amid growing concern over police brutality in France. CBS News correspondent Elaine Cobbe reports.
"We love our country, and it is a true honor to represent America," defender Crystal Dunn said. "It is also our duty to demand that the liberties and freedoms that our country was founded on extend to everyone."
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, 41% of Black-owned businesses have permanently closed, compared to 17% of White-owned businesses. Celebrities like Wyclef Jean are encouraging everyone to support people of color and buy Black this holiday season. Jericka Duncan has more.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have promised to reinstate policies and rejoin organizations that President Trump eliminated during that past four years. But there's still more that they can potentially do during their first few days in office. Alan Jenkins, a professor of practice at Harvard Law School, joins CBSN to discuss some of the executive actions the incoming Biden administration may take.
Photodom is one of the first Black-owned camera shops in Brooklyn.
27-year-old Oklahoma City native Mauree Turner is the first openly nonbinary official elected to a state legislature in the U.S., as well as the first Muslim to serve in Oklahoma's legislature. Turner joined CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss their plans for the future.
"Black lives do matter... If my players want to express themselves, they're entitled to do it," Cohen said.
We "talked about how that slogan... could undermine the BLM movement, just as 'burn, baby, burn' destroyed our movement back in the '60s," Clyburn told CBSN.
As the nation awaits the final results of this year's election, the Black vote could help determine who wins the race for the White House. Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of the NAACP, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss what issues drove Black voters to the polls.
Cori Bush, best known for her activism, has become Missouri's first Black congresswoman, according to CBS News projections.
The Supreme Court handed a temporary victory to Mckesson in the dispute brought by a police officer injured during a 2016 protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Two grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case, who are remaining anonymous, spoke in an exclusive interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King. They discussed how the entire jury was seeking more charges against the officers. Watch more of their interview on "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday at 7 a.m.
Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, is calling for an independent prosecutor and new grand jury to investigate the fatal shooting of her 26-year-old daughter.
Black Lives Matter Fund co-founder Latosha Brown joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" anchor Elaine Quijano to discuss the decades-old tensions between police and people of color on Election Day, as well as her organization's efforts to mobilize marginalized communities in the final days of voting.
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day sparked nationwide protests that continue to this day and drew widespread attention to issues of systemic racism. Robert Samuels, national political reporter for The Washington Post, joins CBSN to talk about his recent in-depth article, "Racism's hidden toll," which looks at the mark that discrimination made on George Floyd's life before his fateful encounter with police.
The police officer who shot and killed 19-year-old Marcellis Stinnette has been fired. Stinnette’s girlfriend was wounded in the shooting.
In their final presidential debate before Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump spoke directly to Black and Brown families who fear for their children because they could be targeted by police due to the color of their skin. Watch their exchange here.
The mayor of Waukegan, Illinois, is calling for calm after a deadly police shooting of a Black teenager.
"We're willing to take a stand, not as one, but as a unit," one senior football player said.
An anonymous juror in the Breonna Taylor case said prosecutors never gave the grand jury a chance to consider a murder charge.
"That was pretty bad," a county election commission spokeswoman said. "They were not supposed to be turned away."
Maryland man was posting a BLM sign when a pickup truck carrying a Trump billboard honked, and he allegedly fired a 12-guage shotgun round.
Activist and principal of "Black Futures Lab" Alicia Garza joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss her new book, "The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart." In it, she discusses the historic movement the U.S. is experiencing and the lessons learned about uniting people to create change.