Bree Newsome removes the Confederate flag in an act of civil disobedience

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...

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to Action at its closing event. They addressed residential-school legacies and reforms across education, justice, health and other...

A white supremacist gunman killed nine Black worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. The attack targeted a historic Black religious institution and intensified demands...

Following legislative action and mounting public pressure, South Carolina removed the Confederate battle flag from its State House grounds. The official removal followed activist challenges, including...

Black women gathered in Brasília for the Marcha das Mulheres Negras against racism and violence and for bem viver. Their mobilization connected racial justice with gender, bodily safety and collective...

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report on the residential-school system. The Canadian Human Rights Commission honoured survivors and urged implementation of the Calls to...

Lenca organizer Berta Cáceres was killed in her home during the night of 2–3 March. COPINH dates the attack to 2 March. Her opposition to the Agua Zarca project connected Indigenous territorial rights...

A horse ride and caravan marked the opening of Sacred Stone Camp on land offered by LaDonna Brave Bull Allard. The camp became a centre of Indigenous resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Water...