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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with law professor Cynthia Lee about her proposal that states raise the standard of when an officer is allowed to use force.

Three days of activities marking the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd begin with members of his family joining a march through downtown Minneapolis.

Survivors and their descendants say facing the truth about the Tulsa Race Massacre is essential in the nation's struggle to confront racial injustice and violence against Black people.

The conflict in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region began in early November. Thousands have died and close to 2 million people are reported to have been displaced.

Once Sanaa Hiremath, 11, was home schooled, she found she could do math without writing problems down. She has a Guinness World Record, finishing a 12-digit multiplication problem in under 10 minutes.

A year ago Tuesday, George Floyd died on a Minneapolis street as a police officer pressed his knee into Floyd's neck. Nearly a year after his murder, family and a crowd of others remembered him.

The death row inmate, who had brain surgery, claims that death by lethal injection would cause severe and painful seizures. The court refused to hear his plea over dissent from the liberal justices.

Acorn TV's engaging new crime drama takes place in a touristy seaside town with an oversized murder rate. Pearl, the single mom who runs the seafood restaurant, also has a small detective agency.

Dawnie Walton's novel is a faux oral history about an interracial rock duo. Opal is a Black proto Afro-punk singer from Detroit, and Nev is a goofy white British singer-songwriter.

More details have emerged about how the Belarusian regime seized an opposition activist, Roman Protasevich, from a commercial airline flight.