Black Lives Matter

LaNisha Cassell, Executive Director of the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, explains the museum’s latest exhibit: Unwavering: 21st Century Activism.

A restaurant in Marshalltown put up a poster that seems to have divided the community. The owner says he has turned the controversy into a way to encourage conversation.

Des Moines Black Lives Matter activists proposed their own language for an executive order as they continue pressuring the governor to restore voting rights to Iowans with felony convictions.

Sitting on a deck at the home of a colleague in Ames, Harvard University biology professor Scott Edwards identifies robins by their call and says the…

As protests for racial justice continue across Iowa, some protesters have been arrested and released on bail. A partnership project is helping some cover…

Local Black Lives Matter activists marched to the home of the Cedar Rapids mayor on Friday. It’s a tactic that protesters in Iowa City and Des Moines have…

Des Moines police and state troopers arrested at least 17 Black Lives Matter protesters at the Iowa Capitol Wednesday, where violent physical altercations…

Des Moines Black Lives Matter activists say law enforcement officers boxed them in at a protest Monday night, preventing them from leaving, and then…

Prominent Black Lives Matter organizer Matthew Bruce has been charged with first degree criminal mischief after Des Moines police accused him of…

Historically, faith and religion have played a significant role in major social justice movements, including the 1960s fight for civil rights. Decades…