(Los Angeles Times) – When Ezell Ford’s mother learned Tuesday afternoon that L.A. police commissioners had faulted one of the officers who fatally shot her son,...
CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press BRIAN SLODYSKO, Associated Press ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) — Prison activist Albert Woodfox, the last member of the “Angola Three” inmates held...
(USA Today) – A Mississippi schools superintendent who acted to press charges against three people who cheered at a high school graduation has dropped the...
CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Prosecutors sought to keep the last of the “Angola Three,” Albert Woodfox, behind bars...
(The Washington Post) – The host of a Texas pool party that led to the suspension of a police officer says things took a turn for the violent...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — It didn’t take long for a grand jury in South Carolina to indict a white former city policeman...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Cleveland.com) – A group of community leaders, clergy and civil rights activists on Tuesday plan to announce they’ve filed affidavits seeking charges against two Cleveland...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After falling into the single digits in April, the Black unemployment rate increased to 10.2 percent...
Martin Griffith, ASSOCIATED PRESS RENO, Nev. (AP) — A runaway slave who joined the Union Army during the Civil War and lost a leg...
Molly Hennessy-Fiske, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times) — Alan “Al” Eickhoff, interim police chief in Ferguson, Mo., took over the embattled department...
Kevin Rector, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — More than a dozen civil and religious groups calling for police reform in Baltimore will...
Jessica Roy, NEW YORK MAGAZINE NEW YORK (New York Magazine) — Kalief Browder, the 22-year-old Bronx resident who was incarcerated as a teenager for years at Rikers...
Tasha Tsiaperas and Claire Z. Cardona, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS McKINNEY (The Dallas Morning News) — A call to police about unwelcome teenagers at a...
Joel Rubin and Kate Mather, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES (The L.A. Times) — Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and the Police Department’s independent watchdog have...
Anne Geggis, THE SUN-SENTINEL DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (The Sun-Sentinel) — The discovery of bones Friday on a site slated for 69 townhouses — and thought...
Jamil Smith, THE NEW REPUBLIC CLEVELAND (The New Republic) — Before last week, the last time I’d been home to Cleveland, Ohio was in December...
Stephen Deere, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Early last month, a group of Ferguson protesters learned that two long-standing...
Luke Broadwater, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — A fifth member of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s Office on Criminal Justice is leaving the agency,...
JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two brothers wrongfully imprisoned for three decades in the killing of an 11-year-old girl say pardons will...
(Baltimore Sun) – Pastors and other community organizers plan to walk some of Baltimore’s most violent blocks on weekend nights from 8 p.m. until 1...
By Richard B. Muhammad and Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – Protests were largely peaceful, calls for calm were...
(Ebony) – “I sent two children to play that day and only one came back.” On November 22, 2014, Samaria Rice’s youngest daughter Tajai Rice, 15,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Four former CVS theft investigators say their supervisors ordered them to target minority shoppers in some New York City stores, according...
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The investigation into the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy holding a pellet gun by a white Cleveland...
