Black Lives Matter

Trayvon Martin’s death 10 years ago impacted the world and changed the lives of many. Orlando activists Miles Mulrain Jr. and Angela Herrera, who helped organize Orlando’s 2020 protests over George Floyd, speak about how the Martin case impacted their lives and the role of social media.

The City of Tallahassee is joining other municipalities in launching a legal challenge to the law, which created new crimes and strengthened penalties for violence or property damage during protests.

The police reform bill that has garnered bipartisan support is going to Gov. Ron DeSantis. The bill was a product of House and Senate leadership working with the Legislative Black Caucus.

Civil-rights attorneys are challenging a new set of state laws that establish a crime of “mob intimidation” and enhance penalties for riot-related violence and looting, arguing in a federal lawsuit that the measures unconstitutionally “seek to arrest the peaceful expression of free speech.”

About eight months after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis touched off nationwide "Black Lives Matter" protests, a Florida state senator has filed a bill that targets strangulation by police officers.

The slogan-bearing tee shirts are popping up in unexpected locales.

The marchers were upset at the results of a Friday grand jury announcement that officers who fired fatal shots in three separate incidents this year would not be charged.

Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey took to Twitter Monday to address a fight between white protesters and white counter-protestors at a black lives matter rally this week. During the altercation, a white counter-protester brandished his gun.

Tallahassee Police Department says no one will face charges following the altercation that took place during a Black Lives Matter protest outside the Florida Capitol on Saturday

First a tee-shirt and soon an original song. Two Capital City teachers are hoping their message of inclusiveness will help cool overheated passions.