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The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has launched a new relief fund aimed at Black college students, alumni and dropouts overburdened by mounting education costs and the student loan debt crisis.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation launched a new relief fund Monday aimed at Black college students, alumni and dropouts overburdened by mounting education costs and the student loan debt crisis. The foundation said it set aside $500,000 for the fund and plans to award more than 500 recipients with relief payments ranging from $750 to $4,500. The BLM foundation’s Student Solidarity Fund is an expansion of a previous initiative it started last year as millions of Americans struggled to make ends meet amid economic uncertainty in the coronavirus pandemic.

Some historically Black colleges and universities have seen increases in application and enrollment numbers after years of decline.

Lawmakers turned their focus to former President Donald Trump's campaign to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to reject electoral votes at the third day of hearings.

The Bureau of Land Management, which ordered the construction, acknowledged it failed to take proper precautions when replacing an existing boardwalk.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a bill on Tuesday to award Kyle Rittenhouse the Congressional Gold Medal for "protecting the community of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a Black Lives Matter (BLM) riot on August 25, 2020."The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest honor Congress can award an individual or institution. It is highly unlikely the bill will go anywhere in the Democratic-controlled House and Senate, and it has no co-...

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The conservative majority of the School Board in Newberg, Ore., voted 4 to 3 to adopt a policy that has attracted national attention, criticism and protests in the weeks since it was first introduced.

The aircraft was helping perform reconnaissance and command and control over the Cedar Basin Fire when it crashed.

A white man who called multiple neighbors racist slurs has been charged with harassment and disorderly conduct.

It was a moment of relief for the family of George Floyd Tuesday afternoon.

LaTonya Floyd remembered her last conversation with her brother, one week before his death. They talked as siblings do and sang the song she taught him years ago.

Far-right social media users for weeks openly hinted in widely shared posts that chaos would erupt at the U.S. Capitol while Congress convened to certify the election results. — Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) January 6, 2021These guys are engaging in hand-to-hand combat with police after storming the US Capitol. The Guard was mobilized Wednesday afternoon to support local police following the storming of the Capitol. Members of the National Guard and the Washington D.C. police keep a small group of demonstrators away from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Getty Images)The Defense Department has activated approximately 6,200 members of the National Guard to support the Capitol Police through the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

PHILADELPHIA – Police shot and killed a 27-year-old Black man on a Philadelphia street after yelling at him to drop his knife, sparking violent protests that police said injured 30 officers and led to dozens of arrests. Officers were called to the Cobbs Creek neighborhood and encountered the man, later identified as Walter Wallace, who was holding a knife, Little said. Hundreds of people took to the streets to protest the shooting late Monday into early Tuesday, with interactions between protesters and police turning violent at times, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. One officer was hospitalized in stable condition with a broken leg and other injuries after she was struck by a pickup truck, police said, while the other injured officers were treated and released. The shooting occurred in a predominantly Black neighborhood in west Philadelphia.

There also had been separate protests beginning at The Bean in Millennium Park and at 79th Street and Racine Avenue. No one else was arrested at any other protest, James said, despite some apparent vandalism, including when the Illinois Centennial Monument in Logan Square was spray-painted, including, according to photos from the scene posted on social media, with “BLM” and “Taylor.”

HOUSTON A Houston business owner is facing backlash after purchasing a Black Lives Matter billboard in Houston. Le Hoang Hguyen, a Vietnamese-American, said he stands in solitary of Black people and those who face racism in America. It supports the simple of the Black Lives Matter movement to stop racism and injustice for all, Hoang Hguyen said, who runs a Farmers Insurance office. But, if we do not stand up for the lives of those most marginalized, how can we say that all lives matter?A Houston business owner is facing backlash after buying a Black Lives Matter billboard in Houston. Here is a Facebook video of Hoang Hguyen explaining the purpose of the Black Lives Matter billboard:

___PORTSMOUTH, Va. Protesters in Portsmouth, Virginia, covered statues at a Confederate monument in the city with sheets and bags Wednesday, several hours after the citys council members had a meeting about relocating it. A white sheet that read BLM covered the fence in front of the monument after the Portsmouth city council met Tuesday to discuss its removal, WVEC-TV reported. Mayor John Rowe proposed allocating $100,000 to remove the statue and possibly relocate it to a local cemetery. During the councils meeting Tuesday, Rowe asked the city attorney if Portsmouth has the right to move the 127-year-old memorial. Reporters have a fundamental right to cover the demonstrations were seeing in Delaware and across our country, Delaware Gov.

HOUSTON George Floyd has grabbed not only the attention of the United States, but the entire world. #GeorgeFloydFuneral LaMarr Kendell Time (@ImKendellLaMarr) June 9, 2020RIP GEORGE FLOYD #GeorgeFloyd please God let us heal our poor country let us do this. Your suffering and sacrifice has changed the world.#BlackLiveMatter Christin #RESIST n (@Christin210) June 9, 2020RIP GEORGE FLOYD You changed the world. RIP George Floyd #trustbuildingforum pic.twitter.com/LYLVizQaxc G Kaur MBE, HonDPA (@nottsprincess) June 8, 2020Im crying because this hurts. RIP George Floyd.

HOUSTON – Hundreds of Houstonians took to the streets to protest police brutality after the death of native-Houstonian George Floyd. WATCH PROTESTERS IN DOWNTOWN:WATCH LIVE: Houston police making apparent attempts to disperse crowds in downtown. MORE: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/05/29/justice-4-george-floyd-protest-will-be-held-at-discovery-green-friday/ Posted by KPRC2 / Click2Houston on Friday, May 29, 2020WATCH ANOTHER ANGLE BELOW:ANOTHER ANGLE: Protesters in downtown Houston. WATCH BOTH LIVES: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/05/29/justice-4-george-floyd-protest-will-be-held-at-discovery-green-friday/ Posted by KPRC2 / Click2Houston on Friday, May 29, 2020The protest that began at 2 p.m. at Discovery Green and continued through the evening. Follow our live blog of the protest below:App users click here to see live blog.

REUTERS/Jim Bourg(Reuters) - Two environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over its plan to open up more than 720,000 acres (291,370 hectares) of federal land in California for oil and gas development. BLM spokeswoman Sarah Webster said in an emailed statement that the agency was reviewing the lawsuit. The agency issued a new environmental study and resource management plan earlier this month. The plan is one of many ways in which U.S. President Donald Trump has moved to expand oil and gas production on federal lands. Several counties in the area covered by the BLM plan, including Monterey and Santa Cruz, have passed legislation to ban new oil and gas wells.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday announced it would open up over 720,000 acres of federal land in California for oil and gas development, ending a five-year moratorium on leases in the state. The BLM has not held a lease sale in California since 2013, when a judge ruled that the agency illegally issued leases without analyzing the environmental impact of drilling called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Turning over these spectacular wild places to dirty drilling and fracking will sicken Californians, harm endangered species and fuel climate chaos. Counties in the area, such as Monterey and Santa Cruz, included in the approved BLM plan, have passed local ordinances to ban new oil and gas wells. The BLM estimates the oil and gas industry on private and public lands directly supports approximately 3,000 jobs and $620 million in tax revenue in the central California coast area.

Burning Man organizers say they wont challenge the U.S. Bureau of Land Managements plans to cap their attendance at current levels under a new 10-year permit, but they will fight any move toward federally sanctioned screenings for weapons and drugs at the counterculture celebration. These procedures will be carried out in a manner similar to previous Burning Man events, BLM spokesman Rudy Evenson told the Reno Gazette Journal. AdvertisementBLM officials have been careful to call the security measures screenings, which they insist are different from searches. The final environmental impact statement, which details the conditions of the event moving forward for the next decade, would cap annual attendance at the current 80,000. Burning Man organizers said theyd received assurances that trash dumpsters wont be required at the 2019 event, something they say undermines their pack-in-pack-out philosophy and fear would result in garbage piling up around the dumpsters.

"BLM has now indicated they will impose this mitigation in the future ONLY IF it is needed to address unresolved issues," the group said. "But we must all do better ... We're simply not doing a good enough job disposing of our trash after we leave Black Rock City."