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.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I couldn’t believe it was happening, but it was. A justice system that for decades was viewed as broken by thousands of Blacks...
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,...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a protest that stretched into...
(CBS News) – One year ago, after the death of Michael Brown and the overblown police response to largely peaceful demonstrations, lawmakers in Washington said they had...
Lisa Brown and Tim Bryant, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON, Mo. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — A peaceful day of protest and remembrance dissolved into chaos...
Stephen Deere and Doug Moore, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON, Mo. (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Inside the stuffy lobby of a downtown homeless shelter, Michael...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) — A year ago, Ferguson, Missouri, was a mostly quiet working-class suburban town. The uneasy...
(CBS News) – One year ago, the nation watched as the city of Ferguson, Mo., erupted. St. Louis police, dressed in riot gear, stood in a...
(BBC) – There is still no headstone in the place where 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr is buried. Those who wish to pay their respects have to...
Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American It has been one year since the world was introduced to the small city of Ferguson, Missouri...
FERGUSON, Mo. (New York Times) — Brianna West stepped before the judge as her daughter Morgan, 3, fidgeted beside her. Ms. West had waited weeks to...
by Ashahed M. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call FERGUSON, Mo. – It has been nearly one year since Michael Brown Jr., was shot...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press JIM SALTER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A silent march and a day of civil disobedience are among the events being...
By Mariah Stewart Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American The burnt-out QuikTrip convenience store that became a symbol of racial unrest after a...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Up from a past that’s rooted in pain / I rise / I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge has narrowed a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of Michael Brown Jr. against...
ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – It’s labeled as a work of art; an exhibit in Chicago featuring a life size portrayal of Michael Brown after he was...
By Terry Shropshire Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender CHICAGO (NNPA) — It is a jarring and disquieting sight to see an...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Sixty-six percent of states that elect prosecutors have no blacks in those offices, a new study has found, highlighting the lack...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The makeshift mid-street memorial that marked where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer last summer...
Special to the NNPA from The Miami Times While America and the rest of the world watch with shock and dismay as Black citizens are gunned...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — An attorney for the family of a black 18-year-old shot and killed last October by an off-duty, white...
Jim Suhr and Alan Scher Zagier, ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — To some, a makeshift shrine in the middle of the Ferguson street where...
ST. LOUIS (USA Today) — The friend who was with Michael Brown on the day the unarmed African American teen was shot and killed by...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — To some, a makeshift shrine in the middle of the Ferguson street where...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown’s parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Ferguson on Thursday, opening a new chapter...
by Brian E. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call COLUMBIA, S.C. (FinalCall.com) – What began as a minor traffic stop apparently for a...
FERGUSON, Mo. (CBS News) – A memorial tree for Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old black man who was killed last summer by a white police officer in...
Washington (CNN) – As the Missouri National Guard prepared to deploy to help quell riots in Ferguson, Missouri, that raged sporadically last year, the guard...
(Raw Story) – The shocking footage of South Carolina man Walter Scott being shot in the back as he ran from North Charleston police officer Michael Slager...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) — Two black candidates have been elected to the Ferguson City Council, tripling African-American representation...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The next Ferguson City Council will face the daunting task of remaking much of...
(Bloomberg) – Next week, Crystal Stovall will choose between two black candidates running to represent her City Council ward in Ferguson, Missouri. The election is...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If the Black residents of Ferguson, Mo., want to radically reform the political climate that...
Michael Brown, Sr., right, and activist Anthony Shahid lead a protest in Clayton, Mo., the seat of government for St. Louis County. (J.A. Salaam/The Final Call)...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Benjamin Crump, the lawyer who skyrocketed to national prominence by representing the family of Trayvon...
Jennifer Mann, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—At a pro-police rally Saturday, a St. Louis police union representative called Department of Justice investigators “a...
FERGUSON, Mo. (New York Times) — Addressing one of the Justice Department’s primary recommendations for the Police Department here, the new acting police chief said on...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When it comes to the equality in America, a new report by the National Urban...
MARTHA BELLISLE, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington man who posted Facebook comments threatening a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer will avoid prison but has...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Five people in Ferguson have been fired or resigned under pressure in the week since the release of...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The federal government’s withering report on the Ferguson Police Department issued a stern mandate to city leaders: Reform...
JEFF DONN, AP National Writer The Justice Department has released its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, concluding that city law enforcement practices are discriminatory and...
(The Washington Post) – The Justice Department just released its investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., police department, an inquiry that was initiated after an officer fatally...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Justice Department investigation found sweeping patterns of racial bias within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department, with officers routinely...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday the deaths of unarmed black men in Missouri and New...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal investigation of the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, is expected to allege patterns of racial bias in...
Anthony Shahid, in black, marches with Michael Brown, Sr. in t-shirt and Akbar Muhammad to the left to Shadid’s right is activist Zaki Baruti in yellow...
DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis area authorities planning for a grand jury announcement had proposed stationing Missouri National Guard...
Demonstrators converge on Ferguson Police Dept. headquarters. by J.A. Salaam Special to the NNPA from The Final Call FERGUSON, Mo. (FinalCall.com) – Nearly seven months since...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is at a crossroads on matters of race relations and law enforcement, presenting “hard truths” that...
DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — As businesses were burned and looted in Ferguson, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was inundated with messages...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist If you read most of what was reported on the visit of 11 members of the Congressional Black Caucus...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — The federal investigation into the shooting death of black Ferguson, Mo., teenager Michael Brown has yielded insufficient evidence to support criminal...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson’s first municipal election since a fatal police shooting sparked months of protests and exposed the city’s...
ST. LOUIS (ST. Louis Post-Dispatch) – In the latest echo from last year’s Ferguson unrest, protesters invoking Michael Brown’s name burst into an auditorium at Harris-Stowe State...
by Bridjes O’Neil Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American Members of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus met with those from the Organization for...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) - The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, citing “grave legal concerns,” is asking a Missouri judge to convene...
by Dr. J. A. Salaam Special to the NNPA from The Final Call BERKELEY, Mo. – This small town just two miles west of Ferguson, Mo.,...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A member of the grand jury that declined to indict a Ferguson police officer in the shooting death...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday extended for 45 days a temporary restraining order requiring Missouri law enforcement officers...
Nicole Flatow, THINK PROGRESS (ThinkProgress.com)—A Ferguson grand juror who heard the case of Darren Wilson previewed potentially scathing criticism of St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert...
Rebecca Macatee, E! ONLINE (EOnline.com)—Nicki Minaj isn’t one of the artists caught up in a racially fueled Twitter war at the moment, but that doesn’t...
Jim Salter, ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS (AP) — From street-artist paintings on boards protecting store windows to signs bearing the now iconic statement, “Hands Up....
Protestors walk out of mall after shutting down stores in efforts to inflict economic pain as part of strategies to obtain justice. No more business as...
(L) Protestors want President Obama to address the problems of racism and police brutality. (R) Pastor Jedidiah Brown leads protest near the Chicago home of President...
The Associated Press The killings of two unarmed black men by white police officers in Missouri and New York this summer touched off protests and...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press JIM SALTER, Associated Press BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) — Demonstrators took to the streets for a second night after a white police officer...
(Los Angeles Times) – The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a preliminary investigation into a video that has emerged of a song that plays...
(USA Today) – Defying Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plea for a moratorium on protests over police conduct, hundreds of demonstrators in New York City briefly...
by Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News In no way should the names of Michael Brown and Eric Garner be...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “It’s just so overwhelming to see all who have come to stand with us. Look at the masses –...
Aaron Blake, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—A significant majority of Americans think race relations in the United States are bad, and race issues appear as...
By Malcolm Marshall Special to the NNPA from New American Media Editor’s Note: In Richmond, Calif., a city long equated with high rates of crime and...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist You can evaluate the quality of life in a society by the way it treats its children. Too many...
By john a. powell NNPA Guest Columnist Thousands recently took to the streets in protest and outrage following a Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to...
(The Root) – One of the key witnesses in Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson’s grand jury case has a history of making racist statements, as...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The understandable attention being focused on differing attitudes among Whites and Blacks toward law enforcement authorities in the wake of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an oval office meeting that some have called “historic,” a group of young activists met...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Now, in the season that’s supposed to exalt goodwill toward all, comes fresh evidence of the important role the White...
BERKELEY, California (AP) — Effigies of black lynching victims found hanging at the University of California, Berkeley have sparked debate over whether the images are powerful...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On Saturday, thousands of Americans across the country registered their objection to police officers not being held...
By Narene Stokes-James Special to NNPA EXCLUSIVE KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In the midst of the headliners Eric Garner, Michael Brown and now Tamir Rice,...
LISA LEFF, Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Stop. Hey, what’s that sound? Protest songs are taking their place alongside chants of “I can’t breathe” and...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A gathering of black congressional staffers and other Capitol employees stood silently on the House steps Thursday and raised...
TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Recent protests against the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have created a conundrum for...
(Texas Public Radio) – The tragic deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown at the hands of police, and the subsequent grand jury decisions, have...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press KRISTIN J. BENDER, Associated Press Jorge “Jinho” Ferreira feels the tension between being black and carrying a badge every day as...
(Mashable) – Medical students staged so-called “die-ins” in universities across the U.S. on Wednesday as demonstrations on race issues in America continued. The students aimed...
(Reuters) – A Missouri bar sparked protests after it offered a drink special on the weekend named after black teenager Michael Brown, whose shooting by police...
BERKELEY, Calif. (New York Times) — This is the college town where the Free Speech Movement was born 50 years ago, spreading across the nation with...
KRISTIN J. BENDER, Associated Press PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of people marched through Berkeley for a third night a row, blocking...
