"It's not just a fight about race," Mckesson said. "It's also a fight about systemic and structural issues that affect so many of us around LGBTQ issues as well—people like me."

While some activists are frustrated with being denied a presidential debate, others are enthusiastic about the town hall's more flexible (and possibly more fruitful) format to address America's racial injustice.

“If you look at the Black Lives Matter movement, one of the most disturbing things is more than one of their protests have embraced rabid rhetoric, rabid anti-police language, literally suggesting and embracing and celebrating the murder of police officers,” Ted Cruz said.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told NBC’s Chuck Todd during the Washington Ideas Forum, hosted by AtlanticLIVE and the Aspen Institute, that the federal government should not require police…

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is taking his powerful message to the Ivy League this fall. Yale Divinity School announced this weekend that he will…

PolitickerOne: Activist Deray McKesson tells NewsOne how the policy platform, aimed at ending police violence, was develped. Plus: The history behind Trump's Lynyrd Skynyrd fail.

The Democratic presidential candidate disavows an aide's apology to Black Lives Matter. Plus: Some Black leaders rap Obama's new ozone rules, saying they will hurt urban communities.

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Following unrest in Ferguson, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger in a statement announced a state of emergency Monday afternoon.

No matter what, Twitter has DeRay’s back. On Wednesday, DeRay McKesson and Montel Williams engaged in a brief Twitter spat after the former talk show host…

What happened in Baltimore is just part of a bigger problem in the black community and activist DeRay McKesson joined us “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” to talk about…

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer wanted to focus his interview with activist, DeRay McKesson, on the violence against police in Baltimore. But it was clear DeRay McKesson…

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Community activist DeRay McKesson continues to say all of the things we are thinking, speaking the truth in national interviews about the current climate of racial…