NNPA NEWSWIRE — For Dream Hampton, who served as executive producer of the much-talked about “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary, the explosive revelations in the film were...
LOUISIANA WEEKLY — Despite closing out 2018 with 145 homicides, the lowest murder total in nearly five decades, New Orleans remains one of the nation’s Top...
ROLLINGOUT.COM — R. Kelly wants to fight back after his sexual exploits were revealed in the documentary series “Surviving R. Kelly.”
THE AFRO — National and local chapters of the NAACP continue to call out the St. Louis Medical Examiner’s office over the issue of whether the office...
THE NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — The fruit of structural racism is the standardizing of white mediocrity and the suppression of black creative excellence. And we deserve...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER —
SAN ANTONIO OBSERVER — 50 year serves as a great opportunity to look back and see how far race in America has come and according to...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Those were three of the top news stories over the past 12 months as reported by The Wave.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The St. Louis County NAACP is joining the McKinnies family in the call for transparency and justice regarding the murder of Danye Jones....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — When viewed in its entirety, the 87-page civil disposition document is rich with consistent denials of wrongdoing by Cosby and explanations of events...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “HISTORIC NEWS: the anti-lynching bill I introduced with @CoryBooker & @SenatorTimScott just passed the Senate unanimously. Congress has tried and failed nearly 200...
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — Cracking open the bubbly is all part of the fun this time a year, and for some, any excuse to imbibe is...
THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — Four teenage boys who pleaded guilty to vandalism and burglary of a predominantly black church have started their probationary periods as handed...
NASHVILLE PRIDE — Rep. Brenda Gilmore was joined by other legislators and representatives from civil rights organizations in Tennessee and Georgia to ask Gov. Bill Haslam...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 2017, even though violent crime (murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) decreased nationwide, violent crime increased in Baltimore, according...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “From 1882 to 1986, Congress failed to pass anti-lynching legislation when it had an opportunity 200 times. Today, by passing this bill we...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The success for proponents has been increasingly measured in terms of the career, stature, title or reputation loss experienced by the growing group...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Despite the duration of the Memorandum of Agreement and the notable progress in many areas, the structure of the Juvenile Court of Memphis...
THE MADISON TIMES — In recent years, Milwaukee has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of opioid-related deaths.
DALLAS POST TRIBUNE — In the few remaining weeks of the 115th Congress it is imperative that we witness the passage of legislation that will, among...
OAKLAND POST — The number of people hospitalized because of amphetamine use is skyrocketing in the United States, but the resurgence of the drug largely has...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In a new court filing seeking to win Cosby’s release from prison and overturn his conviction, Cosby’s lawyers, Brian W. Perry and Kristen...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — About a dozen current and former Prince George’s County police officers filed a lawsuit Wednesday that alleges the top brass allowed discrimination to...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine has filed a lawsuit against Evolve, LLC and Evolve Property Management, LLC for illegal housing discrimination and violating...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The assertion that there is no substantial differential racial impact in jury selection, however well intended, has been largely discredited by research and...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The mural, named “Our Mighty Contribution,” stretches for an entire city block and has been a cultural institution in the African-American community for...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — Gun violence has shortened the life expectancy of Americans by nearly 2.5 years, with shootings driving down the average lifespan of black...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced today that Amazon.com Inc. has agreed not to sell force-fed foie gras in California...
EAST TEXAS REVIEW — In Colorado, long-term solitary confinement used to be a tool that was regularly used in corrections. The problem is that it was...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — While Black women overall are twice as likely to be imprisoned as their white counterparts, Black women ages 18 to 19 are three...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Recent indictments and convictions suggest a swinging pendulum, and at least some cracks in the “Blue Wall” that all too often conspires to...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Elizabeth Midlarsky, a Jewish professor who teaches and researches the Holocaust at Columbia Teachers College, experienced first-hand the resurgence of anti-Semitic crimes across...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Following the murder of her only son, Ennis Cosby, more than 20 years ago in Los Angeles, Mrs. Cosby wrote an essay in...
THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE —
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the question of whether police...
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Jefferson County Commissioner Shelia Tyson said comments about her calling for a boycott at the Riverchase Galleria were taken out of context.
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — There wasn’t a dry eye inside Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Tuesday when the parents of slain 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald “E.J.” Bradford...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “While the air across the country is filled with legitimate accusations of excessive force and police brutality largely directed at minority communities, we...
THE AFRO — The bill would require District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) to enact policies that would prevent and improve responses to sexual assault and...
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — After the shooting death of 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. by a Hoover police officer at the Galleria Mall outside Birmingham on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Mass incarceration is the greatest moral and racial injustice of our time," Lauren-Brooke Eisen, the senior counsel and Inimai Chettiar, the director of...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — hree Chicago police officers who were indicted on conspiring to cover up the shooting of 17-year old Laquan McDonald will appear at Leighton...
FROST ILLUSTRATED — Forty-two percent of Americans said that they personally worry a “great deal” about race relations in the United States, up seven percentage points...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Slavery was abolished in 1865 with the end of the Civil War and passing of the 13th amendment, but America found what many...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Violence against women and girls, one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today, remains largely...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A Black doctor was among four people who died in a mass shooting at Mercy Hospital in Chicago’s predominately Black Bronzeville neighborhood. She...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — For 40 long years, until North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue signed “Pardons of Innocence” documents for each member of the Wilmington Ten (including...
THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — Opioid addiction has become a public health nuisance and destroys too many lives – literally.
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — Roberto “Bobby” Rivera spent 20 years as a police officer in Southern California before a medical injury prompted his early retirement...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Anti-Black or African American” bias accounted for nearly half of all crimes motivated by race or ethnicity, which rose 18 percent according to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The Law and those protections that we are afforded through our Constitution are there to reach just decisions for each citizen. Irrespective of...
THE AFRO — A Baltimore police officer charged with planting drugs at a crime scene has been found guilty, according to sources within the Baltimore City...
THE AFRO — “Women generally are not willing to complain about such behavior for fear of retribution. Most simply try to escape their situations as soon...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — The deaths of those two African Americans in Jeffersontown were just as significant. Yet, it was difficult for the current administration in Washington...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — Community members have raised more than $84,000 for a Los Angeles-area teacher captured on video punching a student who had repeatedly called...
ATLANTA VOICE — The Georgia Secretary of State’s office — ran by Republican candidate for governor Brian Kemp — formally launched an investigation into the Democratic...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With Tuesday’s midterm elections carrying such import, particularly among African Americans and other minorities, Mrs. Cosby not only wanted to convey her thoughts...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Motivated by 45, Cesar Sayoc has “allegedly” mailed at least 15 pipe bombs to Democratic political figures that Trump has criticized. Instead of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), not a single committee meeting has been held on the threat posed by domestic terrorism, despite the...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Three current and former Chicago police officers accused of covering up details of the Laquan McDonald shooting appeared Tuesday, October 30 in Cook...
EAST TEXAS REVIEW — "How do you feel when you put on your uniform each day? 'I was a Military Police Officer 1985-1987. Putting on the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Trump made his self-defining statement on October 22 in Houston, saying, “They have a word. It sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The week of fear became a moment of clarity for some in and out of the media as calls for Trump to dial...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This is a very important and historical election and it’s an opportunity for change. It’s a chance for us to have a seat...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Set within a Cape Verdean American community undergoing a transformation of its own consciousness, Fletcher’s crime novel dives deep into two timely questions:...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — NNPA National Chairman Dorothy Leavell emphasized, “I am deeply disturbed by the recent bomb threats that have been sent to many of our...
SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — A plot to kill me and poison my food by an officer was exposed. But I’m hard to kill. Can’t stop,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “If you have any doubts that O’Neill should recuse himself, just think about that for a moment,” Knightner said. “He whistles for them...
THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY — On November 1 of last year, inmates were released from facilities across Louisiana in a one-time exodus. Ten criminal justice measures, signed...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — When Judge Steven T. O’Neill ruled that former DA Bruce Castor couldn’t testify on behalf of Cosby because the judge claimed the former...
JACKSONVILLE FREE PRESS — "In the years of Cosby’s foolishness it's hard to believe he would believe he could do the same things as the big...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Mr. Cosby said Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela helped him prepare for this chapter of his life. He said...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — A Black teenager was dead and a Chicago police officer was being held responsible for shooting him 16 times. There was a video...
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...
MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — Authorities say the nine of the 11 remains were found in a cardboard box as well as a small casket inside a lowered...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Is Bill Cosby paying the price for all of the sins in the #MeToo era, even though his conviction was based on something...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The conviction of Jason Van Dyke could prove historic, but much more needs to be done to stem the tide of police shootings...
MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — U.S. District Judge William Orrick ruled on Tuesday in a preliminary hearing that Gwendolyn Woods could proceed with her case against the officers...
CINCINNATI HERALD — The group “ran into a gun fight” and fatally shot the gunman through the building’s glass façade, Isaac said. A Medal of Valor...
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — Affecting so many from all walks of life, domestic violence’s effects have profound, rippling effects. It’s one of the many reasons organizations...
MILWAUKEE COURIER — Williams’ party was extra special because he had just been released from the hospital after recovering from a shooting two months prior.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Citing doctored evidence, including an exclusive NNPA Newswire report last month that revealed tapes used to convict Bill Cosby were doctored, attorneys for...
THE CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — In Charleston County where the population of approximately 350,000 is about one-third Black, about 25 percent of the sheriff office’s employees, including...
OAKLAND POST — Oakland Community Organization’s Live Free Committee released a four-page report titled “What’s Up With Our Jails?” on Oct. 2, detailing several issues and...
MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — Dozens of demonstrators marched through downtown Portland, Oregon on Saturday to demand justice in the police killing of Patrick Kimmons. The police version...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Amid jury deliberations Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke listens while attorneys step before Judge Vincent Gaughan bench, as the jury has sent...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder Friday, October 5, by a jury at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With the midterm elections just weeks away, activists and others are keeping keen eyes on any semblance of voter suppression – or worse....
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Several community leaders have made statements regarding responses to the verdict in the Jason Van Dyke trial. Van Dyke is on trial for...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The experts also allege that prosecutors hid evidence that would exonerate Cosby and some claim that despite the high-powered and successful attorneys at...
CALIFORNIA VOICE — Dehumanized by the labels “prisoner,” “inmate” and “convict,” even reduced to serial numbers like Victor Hugo’s Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables,” these men...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — While Mr. Cosby and his lawyer insist he was behaving within the scope of what was acceptable sexual behavior in Hollywood over the...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — WATCH: Roland Martin gets reactions to Bill Cosby's sentencing outside of Ben's Chili Bowl in DC.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — ESSA represents an opportunity to establish a more equitable playing field but the Trump administration’s 2019 federal budget proposes cutting $3 billion from...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The inmates have put together a list of demands, which include increased prison wages, more rehabilitation services and more Pell grants. The prisoners...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Cosby, who declined to address the court during sentencing and also didn’t testify during either of his trials, has vowed to continue to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Without examining Cosby and apparently using just trial testimony, the “expert” witness said she determined that the star “is a sexually violent predator...
ATLANTA VOICE — Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms welcomed a panel of service providers, advocates, and government officials to City Hall to discuss labor exploitation, sexual exploitation...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano’s actions were intended to give his community a false sense of security and were a betrayal of his oath...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — NNPA Newswire has learned exclusively from a high-ranking courthouse source in Pennsylvania that an independent FBI-approved forensic lab has examined an audio recording...
