Washington Redskins to 'review' team name

The Redskins say they will conduct a thorough review of the team’s name a day after their main sponsor asked them to change it.

Black-owned businesses see sales surge amid racism reckoning

Black-owned businesses are enjoying a surge in support amid the national reckoning on racism sparked by George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis.

City of Columbus, Ohio capital, removes Christopher Columbus from city hall

The Ohio capital named for Christopher Columbus removed a large statue of him outside its city hall on Wednesday, taking down what the mayor described as a symbol of divisiveness and oppression.

Special federal officers to protect monuments over July 4 weekend

Rapid Deployment Teams from the Homeland Security Department will be deployed to protect federal monuments around the country.

NYPD budget cut of $1 billion expected to pass

The spending plan acknowledges protesters' demands to cut police spending but falls short of what activists sought.

With a pen stroke, Mississippi drops Confederate-themed flag

With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist.

Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War

The Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence in the South 155 years after the end of the Civil War.

'White power' flare-up in retirement haven reveals tensions

Those tensions, though, flared two weeks ago during a golf-cart parade for President Donald Trump's birthday in which a man shouted, “White Power,” when confronted by anti-Trump protesters. A video clip of that confrontation in America’s largest retirement community was tweeted approvingly by Trump last weekend and then taken down.

NWSL players kneel during the national anthem

Players for the Portland Thorns and the North Carolina Courage knelt during the national anthem Saturday as the National Women’s Soccer League opened the Challenge Cup tournament in Utah.

Princeton University removes Woodrow Wilson’s name from school over 'racist thinking'

Princeton University has announced that it has removed the name of President Woodrow Wilson from the University’s School of Public and International Affairs, which will now be known as The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

L’Oreal will remove words like ‘whitening’ from skin products

French cosmetics giant L’Oreal said Saturday that it will remove words like “whitening” from its skin care products, a move that comes amid global protests against racism sparked by the death of George Floyd in the United States.

Thomas Blanton, KKK bomber of 16th St Baptist Church, dies in prison

Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls and was the deadliest single attack of the civil rights movement, has died in prison, the governor’s office said Friday. He was 81.