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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 — 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...
