Black Lives Matter DC

A D.C. Superior Court judge last week rejected a prominent D.C. Black Lives Matter activist’s request to compel D.C. police to hand over documents she says indicate that the Metropolitan Police Department has been surveilling her for…

Years ago, as Black Lives Matter DC railed against the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), core organizer April Goggans often posted online about a marked police car parked in front of her home and other instances of alleged…

On Wednesday and Thursday, inmates at the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility, a medium security institution for men and women next to the D.C. Jail, were let outdoors for the first time in what advocates say is many months. Outside…

Almost every other night for a span of weeks in 2015, April Goggans says, a D.C. police cruiser parked in an alley across from her home, directly facing her bedroom window.

During a hearing last month, D.C. Superior Court Judge John M. Campbell indicated that he will side with American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia (ACLU-DC), Black Lives Matter DC and Stop Police Terror Project DC in…

The ACLU-DC and two local activist organizations sued the city over a data collection law that MPD isn't following.