Friends and family gathered in two states Saturday afternoon to say their final farewells to 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell, the former Florida A&M football player shot…
After being profiled and followed into a Detroit restaurant by a pair of cops back in May, two brothers who were initially charged with assaulting…
Black Americans have endured their fair share of unjust treatment at the hands of the police and laws put in place to protect the…
The Mississippi Chapter of the National Action Network (NAN), community leaders and local clergy in Natchez, Mississippi have joined forces to protest the vicious Tasering…
I guess it’s fitting that on the day I saw “Fruitvale Station,” the dramatic retelling of the murder of 22-year-old Oscar Grant, it was pouring…
This story is absolutely unbelievable! A 25-year-old woman, Keyarika “Shea” Diggles, was brought into the police station over an unpaid fine of $100. She was…
In February of 2000, four N.Y.C. police officers were acquitted of all charges in the death of Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea who was…
A Bronx judge threw out the manslaughter indictment against NYPD police officer Richard Haste, who fatally shot 18-year-old Ramarley Graham last year, over an error…
New Orleans police officer Joshua Colclough, 28 (pictured left), has been charged with manslaughter for the fatal shooting of 20-year-old, unarmed Wendall Allen (pictured right),…
When the NYPD introduced a controversial policing practice known as stop-and-frisk, black people, especially black men were dubious of the effectiveness. Many said cops would…
When a young, Black boy falls victim to police brutality, many people immediately attempt to justify law enforcement’s rash actions by making disparaging remarks about…
Almost a year after 22-year-old Rekia Boyd (pictured) was gunned down on Chicago’s West Side by Chicago detective Dante Servin, the Chicago City Council Wednesday…
