The events of the last month at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in Columbia have been a sight to behold. From the seeds of student activism led by Black students in an area once known colloquially as Little Dixie, flowers have bloomed on college campuses across the country.

According to reports, five Black Lives Matter protestors were shot by a “small group of white men” during a rally outside a Minneapolis police station last night.

America is a nation founded on a legacy of white supremacy that persists to this day, causing great pain and inequality. Before we get around to solving that, though: let’s have a serious talk about who started the protest Facebook group.

Outside a room in Wasserstein Hall on the campus of Harvard hang framed photographs of every tenured law professor in the school’s 198-year history. When students and faculty walked by those photos this morning, they that tape had been placed on each photo of a black professor, obscuring their faces.

Around 150 students at Hillsboro (Mo.) High School walked out of school Monday to protest against a trans classmate using the girls’ locker room during gym class. Thirty or forty students also protested in support of Lila Perry, a Hillsboro senior who has identified as female since age 13 and came out as trans last…

A crowd of angry protestors devolved into a cloud of tear gas, broken bottles and arrests last night after St. Louis police fatally shot a black 18-year-old suspect while executing a search warrant Wednesday.

On Saturday, Bernie Sanders was scheduled to speak to a crowd of thousands of supporters in a Seattle park. He never did; the event was shut down after a handful of protesters disrupted it in the name of “Black Lives Matter.” This was remarkably dumb.

A day of peaceful May Day demonstrations in Seattle was followed by violence on Friday, CNN reports, with black bloc protesters hurling bricks, wrenches and burning objects at police and officers responding with pepper spray and flash bang grenades.

Law enforcement officers fired tear gas canisters and arrested protesters as they began clearing the streets for the first night of Baltimore’s mandatory curfew.

I was at a stoplight in front of Frederick Douglass High School and directly across from Mondawmin Mall. It was exactly 3 p.m. The mall was on lockdown. There were police helicopters flying overhead. The riot police were already at the bus stop on the other side of the mall, turning buses that transport the students…

Violence tore through a large swath of western Baltimore Monday night, punctuating the week of protests and funeral for Freddie Gray—who died April 19 from a spinal injury he suffered while in police custody—with rioting, fires, and looting.

Late Saturday night, while covering the over the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore City Paper Photo Editor J.M. Giordano was tackled and beaten by Baltimore City police.

Following a day of peaceful demonstration over the death of Freddie Gray, who died of a broken neck while in police custody last weekend, 12 of an estimated 1,200 protesters were arrested in Baltimore Saturday night after a breakaway group smashed windows, damaged cars and battled with police, The New York Times reports

Today, low-wage workers in 200 cities across the world—fast food workers, Walmart employees, adjunct professors, and more—are walking off their jobs and staging protests to demand better pay and working conditions. Is there a strike near you? Probably. Leave dispatches in the comment section below.

My name is Daźay Burnett. I am a 17-year-old senior at Beacon High School. On December 3, 2014, I was arrested, along with about 50 others, for peacefully protesting the Eric Garner decision.

During a Bay Area protest last night over the failure to indict the police officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner, an undercover law enforcement agent who'd been marching with demonstrators pulled out his gun and aimed it at a crowd of protestors.