Hundreds of people in the Washington, D.C., area added their voices to those in New York City who took over Times Square to protest the grand jury’s failure to indict a New York City police officer ...

“Hand’s up, don’t shoot” gesture on Canal Street (photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) We are in Foley square at 6pm, some of thousands gathered the day after a Staten Island ...

Video captured from Saturday's protests in New York City appeared to show demonstrators apparently calling for the deaths of police officers, hours before violence on the Brooklyn Bridge marred the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In a 25-minute interview with Black Entertainment Television, President Obama said protests over the grand jury decision not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric ...

Approximately 400 community members and students from the Princeton Theological Seminary staged a walkout in protest of the recent decisions against indictments in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric ...

AUDIE CORNISH: We head now to Staten Island. Jim O'Grady of our member station WNYC is near the spot where Eric Garner was arrested. And Jim, I understand that people have been gathering on the street ...

Plans by the Rev. Al Sharpton to lead a march across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Aug. 23 to protest the chokehold death of Eric Garner and other alleged acts of police brutality has drawn a ...

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Erica Garner held a vigil and “die-in” on Staten Island Thursday in memory of her father, the 43-year-old who died while being taken into NYPD custody earlier this year. After gathering on Bay Street ...

On Saturday a group of artists and activists staged a protest at the Armory Show art fair, performing music, poetry, a dramatic reading of Eric Garner's last words, and staging a die-in. The Artists ...