Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from BLM

Participating in Black Lives Matter Protest Isn't Protected by Federal Labor Law

Federal labor law limits employers' ability to fire employees for "engag[ing] in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection." (It also limits unions' ability to discipline members for their speech on union matters.) But, unlike the laws in some states, it doesn't…

Michael Brown’s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race

Michael Brown’s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race

Michael Brown has been dead for a decade

The Independent UK

Far-right online attacks against Tim Walz focus on conspiracy theory

Far-right online attacks against Tim Walz focus on conspiracy theory

Users of online platforms spread conspiracy theory that he changed Minnesota flag to mimic Somalia’s

The Guardian - US

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

Claims of two-tier policing at far-right riots ‘racist gaslighting’, equality campaigners say

Claims riots policed differently to other disorder dismissed as ‘deliberate racist and Islamophobic dog-whistle’

The Independent UK

Republicans scramble to attack Tim Walz after Harris taps him as her running mate

Republicans have taken to social media to bash on Walz. On X, they've called him everything from weird to an extreme socialist.

What is ‘two-tier policing’? Nigel Farage and Elon Musk’s claims debunked as UK faces more riots

Critics and the far right have claimed previous protests - including those in 2011 after the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan and the Black Lives Matters demonstrations in 2020 - were policed ‘more favourably’ than racist demonstrations that have spanned the UK since murders in Southport

The Independent UK

England riots: how has ‘two-tier policing’ myth become widespread?

Idea has been propagated by Tommy Robinson and others from far right but claim does not stand up to scrutiny

The Guardian - UK

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Coast Guard rescue blind hiker and guide dog after days stranded on baking Oregon trail

Coast Guard rescue blind hiker and guide dog after days stranded on baking Oregon trail

The 55-year-old man recovered from the Rogue River Trail was suffering from heat exhaustion

Allowing "Black Lives Matter" Signs in Classrooms But Forbidding "All Lives Matter"/"Blue Lives Matter" Might Violate First Amendment

So holds the Eighth Circuit, concluding that the plaintiffs had sufficiently alleged that the "Black Lives Matter" signs were private speech, rather than government speech.

‘The darker you are, the less you’re worth’: the influencer pay gap

‘The darker you are, the less you’re worth’: the influencer pay gap

Beneath the flashy holidays and gifts, online influencing is rife with inequality, insiders say

The Guardian - UK

‘Mysterious monolith’ spotted for first time since 2020 in Nevada desert

‘Mysterious monolith’ spotted for first time since 2020 in Nevada desert

Other versions of the 10ft-tall metal installation were found in places like Utah, California, Wales and Romania in 2020

The Guardian - US

A lithium mine versus a rare flower

A lithium mine versus a rare flower

Botanists express alarm that a rare plant, the Tiehm's buckwheat, won't survive where a lithium mine is planned

Bureau of Land Management shrinks proposed size of controversial Idaho wind farm project

Bureau of Land Management shrinks proposed size of controversial Idaho wind farm project

The federal Bureau of Land Management's preferred alternative for a proposed large-scale wind energy farm in southern Idaho would shrink the size by nearly half and keep it farther away from a national historic site

The Independent UK

US activists worry about ‘losing major asset’ TikTok as potential ban looms

US activists worry about ‘losing major asset’ TikTok as potential ban looms

Recent decisions by US gov’t and platforms have made organising on TikTok, Instagram much harder for activists.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Gov. Greg Abbott pardons ex-U.S. sergeant who killed BLM protester

Daniel Perry was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020.

Biden ending new leases in America's top coal region

Citing climate change, federal land managers are moving to end new leasing for coal in the country's top producing region.

International Business Times

Biden Rule Hikes Fees For Oil Projects On Public Lands

Oil companies drilling on public lands must post larger bonds and pay higher royalties under a rule finalized Friday by the Biden administration.

"Black Lives Mat[t]er" + "Any Life" Drawing "Not Protected by the First Amendment" in First Grade

Such speech can be found to be "impermissible harassment," the court says, partly because "deference to schoolteachers is especially appropriate today, where, increasingly, what is harmful or innocent speech is in the eye of the beholder."

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

‘It was so wrong’: why were so many people imprisoned over one protest in Bristol?

The long read: More people have been imprisoned for rioting during a single day in Bristol in 2021 than in any other protest-related disorder since at least the 1980s. What was behind this push to prosecute so harshly?

The Guardian - US

A ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ in the US? Israel-Gaza war shows it’s more myth than special relationship

It has been an article of faith that Jews and Black Americans have a natural bond, but a ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ is not, or at least not reliably, a thing

New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Office Scraps Proposed Fossil Fuel Regulations

Ten years of meetings and plans abruptly dumped; future plans uncertain.

The Guardian - US

The US says it needs up to 22m acres for the solar energy transition – here’s what that looks like

The Bureau of Land Management proposed using 22m acres of public land for solar projects – roughly the size of Maine, or an area larger than Scotland

Former President Trump proposes deploying troops to Democratic-run cities

Join the debate on crime and hear Nikki Haley and Governor Sanders clash over law and order strategies. A creative, fresh perspective on a hot topic.

Former Sheriff Dave Reichert aims to flip Washington state Republican

Former congressman and sheriff, Dave Reichert, aims to flip Washington state from blue to red as he runs for governor. He promises to tackle rising crime a...

The Independent UK

Black American solidarity with Palestinians is rising and testing longstanding ties to Jewish allies

A growing number of Black Americans see the struggle of Palestinians reflected in their own struggles for racial equality and civil rights

People

133,787 stories

Sir Keir Starmer

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Donald Trump Jr.

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

Organisations

The Independent

Black Lives Matter

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

125,519 stories

Endangered Species

Places

295,251 stories

119,173 stories

Washington D.C.

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.

Download on the AppStore

Get it on Google Play