Every day for nearly a week, Manette Sharick and her 3-year-old daughter, Zhuri, drew “Black Lives Matter” in chalk across the sidewalk outside their home in Concord, California.

“We don’t want it to be about the drawing,” attorney Caballero said. “This is about a 10-year-old Black girl who was arrested and there was no reason to believe that she was violent.” ...

In a small Washington town where people of color say they have faced discrimination, activists ran into trouble for drawing “Black Lives Matter” in the streets. Then their white neighbors came ...