The 70-second video was released on social media platforms Thursday night and includes Odell Beckham Jr., Deshaun Watson, Ezekiel Elliott, Jamal Adams, Stephon Gilmore and DeAndre Hopkins, among others.
The calmer night came as many cities intensified their curfews, with authorities in New York and Washington ordering people off streets while it was still daylight.
With protests for social justice and police reforms continuing across the country, a group in Memphis took a break Thursday night to share new strategies for what comes next.
From coast to coast, and from Paris and London to Sydney and Rio de Janeiro, his death has set off turbulent and sometimes violent demonstrations against police brutality, racism and inequality.
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AARON MORRISON, NOMAAN MERCHANT and MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland agreed Thursday to sign a pledge from former President Barack Obama asking mayors to review “use of force” policies in their cities.
There’s a push to support Mid-South black-owned businesses. The Downtown Memphis Commission is encouraging everyone to support the livelihoods of local African American entrepreneurs.
Thursday officials with the Shelby County Health Department said current modeling predicts a peak of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic later this fall.
A 25-year-old man was indicted this week on first-degree murder charges for allegedly shooting an acquaintance in the head last year at a Whitehaven apartment, according to Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.
The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement have urged that "a people's vaccine" be developed for COVID-19 that would be freely available to everyone, calling it a "moral imperative."
A new report from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce shows there have been 581,405 new unemployment claims filed in Tennessee since March 15, 2020.
The 20-page report released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office came with the family’s permission and after the coroner’s office released summary findings Monday that Floyd’s heart stopped while he was being restrained by officers, and classified his May 25 death as a homicide.
Nearly four years after a Lowndes County grand jury indicted a Columbus cop for shooting and killing a black man, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has dismissed the case, citing a lack of evidence to prosecute.
