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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Octavia Smith, board president of the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a bail fund that's raised more than $30 million since protests against police violence began.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, about America's shifting attitudes on race and the police.

Police presence in schools has been growing for decades; now there's a national movement to get them out.

The university is partnering with alumna Pinky Cole to offer full scholarships to the four children of Rayshard Brooks, who was killed by Atlanta police at a Wendy's drive-through earlier this month.

Former national security adviser John Bolton talked with NPR's Steve Inskeep about his new book, The Room Where It Happened. Bolton accuses Trump of incoherent decision-making and incompetence.

Protesters nationwide are demanding police reform. Calls to defund the police mean different things to different people, and there's no clear answer to what that might look like in reality.

Tuesday's Democratic primary to choose who takes on Sen. Mitch McConnell this fall is suddenly competitive. Ex-Marine pilot Amy McGrath faces Charles Booker, an African American progressive.

NPR's Noel King talks to sociologist Rashawn Ray of the Brookings Institution about why simply diversifying a police department does not decrease police actions of brutality toward people of color.

New COVID-19 cases are on the rise in almost half the states, including spikes in Florida, Texas and Arizona, where the president is headed Tuesday.

Her allies see the first-term California senator and former prosecutor as bringing needed demographic balance to the Democratic ticket.