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Sanders pledged to fight the for-profit prison industry and to restore portions of the Voting Rights Act struck down by the Supreme Court. Bernie Sanders is the candidate that is most likely to support their cause, so why show such contempt for him and his supporters?

In reality, he’s the best chance Democrats have and matches up nicely with Jeb Bush, or any other GOP candidate, on a variety of issues. Joking about being able to delete emails may have sounded like a good idea when the speech was written but as delivered it came across as...

Bush’s PR team said that he had met with “members of the movement” earlier in the day and had discussed criminal justice reform and “barriers to upward mobility”.

This past Saturday, Black Lives Matter protestors all but set the stage on fire during his campaign in Seattle, citing his lack of service to the African-American community during his tenure as Vermont lawmaker.

It was a packed house last night with over 27,000 “Berners” supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders cheering, chanting and stomping in support of his campaign rally in Los Angeles.

On Saturday, protesters from Black Lives Matter took over a microphone at a Sanders event in Seattle and forced him to abandon an afternoon speech.

During the gunfire, Harris crossed the street and apparently spotted plainclothes officers arriving in an unmarked van with distinctive red and blue police lights, Belmar said. Police used smoke to disperse the crowd. “It’s disrespectful”, said Talal Ahmad, 30,...

Union Theological Seminary professor Cornel West was also arrested, The Associated Press reported. “That’s not going to happen”.

There’s a debate to be had as to whether the SI Yankees were right to work with such a controversial group in the first place (rather than, say, working with other police charities with less-confrontational names and goals), but regardless of one’s position there,...

Later, an AP reporter saw a woman overcome with grief. Moments later, he and a friend were walking on Canfield Drive when Wilson, who is white, told them to move to the sidewalk.

Dozens of protesters converged on West Florissant Avenue, which bore the brunt of last summer’s rioting, and chanted: “Shut it down” in the midst of a severe thunderstorm.