HOUSTON (USA Today) — The family of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman found dead in a Texas jail cell last month, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Houston...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Both sides in the voluntary manslaughter trial of a white Charlotte police officer in the on duty shooting...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The United Nations Human Rights Committee has given the U.S. a series of failing grades on human...
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Protest marches have been part of Selma’s civil rights fabric since 1965, but an 860-mile trek to Washington had a...
WASHINGTON (NPR) — As we approach the one-year anniversary of unarmed black youth Michael Brown’s death at the hands of Ferguson, Mo., police officer...
Brandon Ellington Patterson, MOTHER JONES BALTIMORE (Mother Jones) — Documents from a “crisis management” report produced by the cybersecurity firm ZeroFox indicate that the firm monitored...
Michael Gordon and Elizabeth Leland, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER CHARLOTTE (The Charlotte Observer) — The voluntary manslaughter trial is fully underway for Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Officer Randall...
John A. Torres, Florida Today, via USA TODAY MELBOURNE, Fla. (USA Today) — By this time Saturday, Catherine Jones will be a free woman. The 30-year-old, being...
Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY ST. LOUIS (USA Today) — The father of Michael Brown still grieves for his son, but finds solace in the change...
Sharon Coolidge and Dan Horn, The Cincinnati Enquirer via USA Today CINCINNATI (USA Today) — Two officers who arrived moments after former University of Cincinnati...
Richard Pérez-Peña and Timothy Williams, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — They began as workaday interactions between the police and the public,...
by Victoria T. Davis Special to the NNPA from the Indianapolis Recorder The law enforcement field has been an intense topic of discussion, more specifically police officer...
(USA Today) – More than 5,000 bystanders and passengers have been killed in police car chases since 1979, and tens of thousands more were injured as...
(Slate) – Two police officers who supported the apparently false narrative given by officer Ray Tensing to justify his fatal shooting of unarmed black motorist Sam...
MEG KINNARD, Associated Press BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The white man accused of gunning down nine parishioners at a black church in...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Surveillance cameras caught images of two white males laying Confederate battle flags on the ground near the Rev. Martin...
(The Guardian) – After massive protests in the streets of Baltimore to raise awareness about Baltimore City police practices and to demand answers and accountability in...
LISA CORNWELL, Associated Press DAN SEWELL, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A University of Cincinnati police officer who shot a motorist after stopping him over a...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEWS ANALYSIS BATON ROUGE, La. – It was a scene that a young, militant Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. could not...
By Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA NEW YORK – What is immediately essential for me about Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ lengthy epistle 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...
LISA CORNWELL, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A University of Cincinnati officer who shot a motorist during a traffic stop over a missing front license plate...
(Politico) – The leaders of America’s cities have serious concerns about race relations, minority communities and policing issues as the nation approaches the one-year anniversary of...
JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some federal and state prisoners could soon be eligible for federal student aid to take college courses while...
