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 — “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 — One of the most disturbing issues that has captured the attention of legal experts and members of the community is whether those five...
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 — “…Slavery is still legal in the United States, so long as it is pursuant to a criminal conviction and if it is limited...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN RECORDER — Calandra Revering intends to get respect for people of color in the courts
THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — One day before the start of early voting in Tennessee, the Tennessee Black Voter Project (TNBVP) announced they have filed a lawsuit...
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 — Between 1989 and 1991, tensions between Arab-Berbers and black ethnic groups in Mauritania resulted in the government-led displacement, expulsion, and denationalization of over...
THE AFRO — Just a little over two years ago, Texas Southern University’s (TSU) Thurgood Marshall School of Law, found itself in the center of controversy...
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 — Voting is the glue holding democracy together. However, the suppression of the vote only weakens democracy. Republicans make political prisoners of Crystal Mason,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As of June 2018, more than 1.2 million student loan borrowers requested to be certified, with 890,000 ultimately certified eligible. 28,000 applied for...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — At different times over the past five years, Frank J. Phillips, Marcia Pearl and Vincent Miles said they ran into a buzz saw...
MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — Kim Jackson, who is Black, joined Shannon Grammel, Megan Lacy and Sara Nommensen as Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court law clerks. She is a Yale Law...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Unreasonably curtailing parole releases and silencing the political voices of those who have been released from prison is bad policy, guaranteed to reproduce...
SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Just a few years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union reported that African Americans were nearly four times more likely to...
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....
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 — “Dr. Ford delivered a compelling and credible account of her horrific encounter with Brett Kavanaugh and I believe her. He, on the other...
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 — “For far too long, certain financial professionals have been able to game the system and choose a standard of care that allows them...
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...
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...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Prosecutor Joseph McMahon held up the small knife #LaquanMcDonald was carrying the night he was shot. Three-inch folding blade, brown handle.
CHICAGO CRUSADER — ...by January 1, 2019, CPD must instruct officers on weapons discipline and when officers should and should not point a firearm at a...
“It is also a fact that Black men are more likely to be prosecuted and then given severe sentences than white men, even though rates of...
“This is a discriminatory state law that is antiquated and almost equates to the laws that discriminated against racial minorities decades ago when they were required...
A source whom can only be identified as a ‘neutral’ Montgomery County Court official, claims a tape played in court that helped convict Bill Cosby was...
AFRO — Long before weed became a force for states’ economic booms, the product was a forbidden fruit that many users took a gamble to possess....
"...I cried right there in my seat. I was furious. I was hurt … despondent, even. How was this reality? In that moment, I felt as...
MILWAUKEE TIMES — Milwaukee police officers did nothing wrong when they used a stun gun on Bucks’ guard Sterling Brown during his arrest over a parking...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The residents of Charlotte had no idea their entire city would be turned upside down due to killings of one of the...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — Police brutality continues to plague Black and Brown communities and interactions that would otherwise be mundane and uneventful for other Californians often...
THE AFRO — The fallout from the disgraced Gun Trace Task Force broadened after a Baltimore County police officer whose name surfaced during the trial of...
Victories for Black Americans, and for all others who stand freedom, justice and equality, do not come easy and do not occur without a prolonged, sustained...
