Breonna Taylor

Four US police officers charged over Breonna Taylor’s death

The deaths of Taylor and George Floyd, murdered in 2020, became the focus of a wave of mass protests in the United States and beyond against racial injustice and police brutality.

US police release footage of deadly shooting of Black man Amir Locke

The body-cam video shows a SWAT officer shot dead Amir Locke less than ten seconds after entering the crime scene on a search warrant.

Groundbreaking Black feminist writer bell hooks dies at 69

bell hooks, whose explorations of how race, gender, economics, and politics were intertwined made her among the most influential thinkers of her time, dies at her home in the US state of Kentucky, her family says.

US opens police-bias probe into Breonna Taylor's killing

Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a sweeping investigation into policing in Louisville, Kentucky, over the March 2020 killing of the Black woman in a botched police raid.

Family, demonstrators call for justice a year after Breonna Taylor's death

The FBI said it had made "significant progress" in its investigation of the death a year ago of Breonna Taylor, a young Black woman mistakenly shot and killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky during a botched raid of her apartment.

Police officers who shot Breonna Taylor and prepared search warrant fired

Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room aide, was shot six times after police forced their way into her apartment using a no-knock search warrant on March 13.

Grand juror speaks after ruling in Breonna Taylor case

The grand jury in September recommended no homicide charges be brought against the three white officers in the case. One of the officers, Brett Hankison, was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing into a neighbour's apartment.

Breonna Taylor jury recordings released in rare disclosure

Kentucky's attorney general releases audio recordings of the grand jury proceedings that cleared three policemen of homicide charges in Taylor's death, offering a rare peek at the inner workings of a jury, which is normally kept secret.

$16 trillion: The cost of racism in the United States

Racism is holding back the US economy, and in particular, hindering the Black population, a new report finds.

Breonna Taylor's family calls for release of grand jury transcripts

Breonna Taylor was shot multiple times by white officers when police burst into her Louisville apartment.

Louisville protests continue over Breonna Taylor's killing despite curfew

With a curfew in place through the weekend, about a hundred protesters in violation of the rule sought refuge at the First Unitarian Church to protest over the lack of criminal charges in the police killing of Breonna Taylor.

Officers shot as Louisville erupts in anger over Breonna Taylor decision

Two white policemen who fired into Taylor's apartment in March will not be prosecuted for her death because their use of force was justified while a third was charged with endangering her neighbors, Kentucky's attorney general has said.