Eric Garner dies during a police arrest in Staten Island

A federal court found constitutional violations in New York City's stop-and-frisk practices, including racial discrimination. The court ordered a monitor and a reform process involving affected...

The Constitutional Tribunal's ruling TC/0168/13 retroactively restricted access to Dominican nationality for descendants of certain migrants. It disproportionately affected people of Haitian...

The RCMP carried out an operation against a protest blockade near Rexton, New Brunswick, amid Elsipogtog Mi'kmaq opposition to shale-gas exploration. The confrontation generated scrutiny of police...

CARICOM leaders met in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to consider the Reparations Commission's report, including its Ten-Point Plan. The programme linked acknowledgment of slavery and genocide...

The Supreme Court of Canada granted a declaration of Aboriginal title over the area claimed by the Tsilhqot'in Nation before it. The judgment recognized territorial occupation beyond narrowly...

Police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The death prompted sustained protest and national attention to policing in Black communities. The subsequent federal...

The United Nations gathering adopted an outcome document on implementing Indigenous rights. It emphasized participation and free, prior and informed consent in decisions affecting Indigenous...

A Cleveland police officer shot Tamir Rice, a twelve-year-old Black child playing with a pellet gun. He died the following day. The case became central to demands for accountability and scrutiny of...

Student Chumani Maxwele protested at the Cecil Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town, helping initiate the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. Students connected the colonial monument to wider...

The Cecil Rhodes statue was removed from its prominent campus position after a month of mobilization. Rhodes Must Fall supporters treated the removal as part of a larger struggle over institutional...