In a perverse irony, post-slavery, it was the former enslavers who received reparations, leaving Black Americans to navigate a landscape marred by Reconstruction, racist Jim Crow...
NNPA NEWSWIRE -— “Open discussion and debate will enable us to find solutions to the racial inequality that persists in the nation today,” said noted historian...
LOUISIANA WEEKLY — They had been sent to arrest Scott, a Black Muslim, who charged the officers after they kicked in the front door of his...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The truth is, crime is out of control in this country, especially in too many of our cities. While many choose to turn...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This was not an ‘error,’ this was a hate crime. You don’t shoot a child in the head because he rang your doorbell....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Amid ongoing community outcry for police transparency and accountability, the updated contract with the Portland Police Association (PPA) includes employee recruitment and retention...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Over the last ten years there have been several deaths in police custody shootings that have gained national attention. Most of them have...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Many seek to ascertain whether North Pontotoc District Attorney John Weddle should have recused himself because of possible ties to Carpenter and whether...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Most recently, Crump has represented three of the most high-profile cases in America today in his representation of the families of Floyd, Ahmaud...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "This is a pivotal time, in our nation's history, to force positive changes within all of our institutions which are rampant with racist...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "It's so asinine that the actions of the killer of [Treyvon Martin] their teenage son will continue to devastate them over and over...
THE AFRO — The District’s airwaves just got a little more political with the addition of the “Michael Brown Show,” a new podcast airing Monday nights. According to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Five years ago, my beloved son Eric was murdered by people who were supposed to serve and protect," Gwen Carr, the mother of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In his August 19 announcement, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said he expects rank and file officers to be upset with him for firing...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Now is also a time to remember that regardless of race or ethnicity, our history chronicles the range of hate crimes that have...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Although in some respects racial equality has improved in the intervening years,” states the report, “in other respects today’s Black citizens remain sharply...
NASHVILLE PRIDE — Churches, pastors, ministers and those who speak for the evangelistic community are being called out to “do something” about the plight of the community.
FLORIDA COURIER — Morehouse College Glee Club and members of the Atlanta Symphoria performed ‘Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) On December 29, Fox News personality Eric Bolling spoke out against a painting by a high school artist and...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a scathing report on the state of the Baltimore City Police...
By Attorney Benjamin L. Crump NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist “Wrong is wrong: justice needs to be served,” is a statement that my client Jannie Ligons...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The co-chairman of a reform panel formed after the Ferguson police shooting of Michael...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officers arrested at least nine people and deployed tear gas amid protests in St....
JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — By Wednesday, police outnumbered protesters in the St. Louis suburb that launched the “Black Lives Matter” movement, signaling...
(Salon) – According to multiple media reports, a group of at least four or five heavily armed white men showed up on the streets of Ferguson,...