Black Lives Matter

"X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X" made its debut in the 1980s, but it's popularity is on the rise at it arrives in Seattle.

When the Seattle singer known as Lady A picked up the phone one spring day in 2020, she found herself stepping into the ring for a title fight with some of the most powerful forces in the music industry.

Founded during the height of the 2020 protests against police brutality, community members say the Black Lives Memorial garden in Cal Anderson Park serves not only them but others in the community, such as the unhoused. Seattle Parks and Recreation say they need the space back.

A man who hit two protesters, killing one of them, with his car during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Seattle in 2020 has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies.

Questions posed about the safety of tear gas remain unanswered, even after more than a dozen U.S. senators asked a congressional watchdog to look into the issue. Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley's office called the report from the Government Accountability Office completely inadequate. Merkley is particularly concerned because Portland was an epicenter of the protests.

A new, 63-page IRS tax filing shared exclusively with The Associated Press shows the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc. ended its last fiscal year with nearly $42 million in net assets. Release of this tax filing, the first public accounting of the BLM foundation's finances since incorporating in 2017, comes on the heels of controversy over its purchase of a $6 million property in Los Angeles.

A city audit is critical of the way the Portland Police Bureau collected and stored surveillance information regarding racial justice protests in 2020. KGW-TV reports auditors said police collected information about protesters who were not connected to any crimes, and kept some private information for too long. The audit was done after Black Lives Matter protesters expressed concern that police were gathering information that could violate their civil rights.

UW and Indiana University researchers tracked spikes in search terms online since Black Lives Matter protests began in 2014. Their findings are digital evidence of how the way communities talk about these issues has significantly changed as a direct result of the protests.

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