On Wednesday, minutes before the official deadline to enter Baltimore’s already crowded mayoral race, DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist and social media juggernaut, filed paperwork to run for the ...

A prominent civil rights activist and Black Lives Matter leader was released from a Baton Rouge, La., jail on Sunday afternoon, hours after he and more than 100 others spent a night in jail following ...

Just a month after Black Lives Matter activist announced he was running for mayor of Baltimore, station WBAL reports he’s raised more money faster than any of the other candidates in the race.

The police response on the Capitol Wednesday looked nothing like the images from Black Lives Matter protests this summer or years past. Black Lives Matter Leader DeRay Mckesson Speaks Out On ...

One of the most prominent activists in the Black Lives Matter movement has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. DeRay Mckesson, a former Minnesota Public Schools employee who rose to national ...

Noted Black Lives Matter activist and the former mayoral candidate for the city of Baltimore DeRay Mckesson has been named interim chief human capital officer for the city’s school districts. Mckesson ...

Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson took the stage at a San Francisco gala on Saturday and opened up about the complexities of being black and gay. “I stand here as a proud black gay man,” said ...

But she did not take part in a pair of unsigned decisions in favor of a Black Lives Matter activist and a prisoner held in abusive conditions. By Adam Liptak The A.C.L.U. asked the Supreme Court to ...

DeRay Mckesson, the prominent and outspoken Black Lives Matter activist, was arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last night during a protest against the shooting death of Alton Sterling. Mckesson ...

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson ruled that, like the Tea Party or the civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter is a social movement, and therefore isn’t an entity capable of being sued ...

DeRay Mckesson has filed a lawsuit against Fox News and the cable news network’s Jeanine Pirro, with the social justice advocate accusing the Justice host of slandering him in September of this year. ...

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is putting his money where his mouth is and is officially running for mayor of Baltimore. The 30-year-old from Baltimore, who first became a leader within ...