Throngs of people who packed streets in a suburb of Saint Louis, Missouri, to protest the fatal shooting of a black teen were largely dispersing on Saturday night in advance of a curfew imposed to try to...

Thousands of protesters marched down iconic Pennsylvania Avenue on Saturday, arriving at the Capitol to call attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and call for legislative...

Protesters marched around New York voicing displeasure at the failure of grand juries to indict white police officers in the death of unarmed black men.

Protesters marched near Times Square and entered Grand Central station,...

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After more than two weeks of sometimes-violent street protests, police and military patrols and a firm grip in the maw of the 24-hour news cycle, 11,000 students in the St. Louis suburb where a white police officer...

Small, scattered protests continued in Ferguson on Wednesday night, with no reports of major confrontations or damage to property.

Hours after nightfall, a crowd of protesters lingered outside the Ferguson Police...

Dozens of minority congressional staffers and Capitol employees have gathered to protest the killing of unarmed black men by police.

About 200 workers and a few members of Congress stood on the House steps Thursday and...

Lawyers for Michael Brown's family said on Tuesday that the process that led to a white officer not being indicted in the fatal shooting of the unarmed, black 18-year-old was unfair and broken.

At a news...

Protesters gathered in New York on Monday night to demonstrate the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, black men who died at the hands of white police officers.

Groups of protesters with arms raised chanted...

Police said they fired smoke and tear gas canisters into a crowd of defiant protesters who gathered in a St. Louis suburb early Sunday where a black teen had been shot by a white police officer while walking down the...

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Reverend Al Sharpton was joined by family members of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in Washington, DC on Saturday as thousands marched to call attention to the deaths of...

The uncle of Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown delivered his first sermon at a St. Louis church since last week's incident, speaking out about the violence and looting that has since plagued the...

The streets of Ferguson, Missouri, remained peaceful Saturday afternoon as tensions between police and protesters subside after nights of violence and unrest that erupted when a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed...

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told media Tuesday he hopes people will protest peacefully tonight following a night filled with unrest after the grand jury handed down its decision in Ferguson on Monday.

Belmar...

Police in metro Atlanta are preparing for protests or even unrest as a grand jury in Missouri decides whether to criminally charge a white officer who fatally shot a black man.

DeKalb County officials planned to...

The father of an 18-year-old black man shot to death by a white police officer in the US state of Missouri, called on Sunday for a "day of silence" as he lays his son to rest on Monday.

The more than two weeks...

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" the officer involved in the shooting of michael brown was darren wilson.he's been a police officer for six years, has had no disciplinary...

The Rev. Al Sharpton is joining the families of three unarmed black men who recently died at the hands of police officers.

Sharpton's meeting Wednesday came two days after the decision not to indict a white Ferguson,...

Smoke billowed from burned-out buildings and pavements were strewn with broken glass in Ferguson, Missouri, following a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of unarmed...

A handful of people are gathered in downtown St. Louis for what the organizer is calling a "pro-community" car cruise.

Organizer Paul Byrd says the event is meant to be a peaceful counterpoint to the violence seen...

The parents of a US teenager who was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson said on Saturday that they are unmoved by the town police chief's apology.

Instead, Lesley McSpadden and...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton says the fatal shooting of an unarmed Missouri teenager and the violent protests that followed resulted from frayed bonds of trust in his racially...

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Governor Jay Nixon and Captain Ron Johnson said at a Ferguson press conference Friday that last night's protests happened peacef
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Johnson said there were no...

Police said they fired smoke and tear gas canisters into a crowd of defiant protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday night, where an unarmed black teen had been shot by a white police officer while walking down the...