Phil Trexler, WKYC-TV Cleveland via USA TODAY CLEVELAND (USA Today) — The dispatcher who told police that a male outside of a Cleveland recreation center...
Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Black Lives Matter network will skip a presidential endorsement but keep up its political activism by...
Katie Nodjimbadem, SMITHSONIAN (Smithsonian.com) – Aunt Jemima’s warm smile, pearl earrings and perfectly coiffed hair are easily recognizable in the breakfast foods aisle in grocery...
WHITNEY, Texas (Fox News 4) – A Central Texas man who claimed anti-police vandals had attacked the family pickup truck has been arrested after police...
ALANNA DURKIN, Associated Press CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — Protests continued Friday over a western Virginia high school’s ban on Confederate flags displayed on clothing and cars,...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (The Washington Post) — Joey Meek, a friend of admitted Charleston shooter Dylann Roof, pleaded not guilty Friday to two federal charges related to...
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NEW HAVEN (New York Times) — When Maya Jenkins was accepted to Yale, her family erupted in joy. Still, her mother confessed a concern: that her daughter...
NEW YORK (CBS News) – An aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was shot in the crossfire between two gangs hours before the city’s West...
Thomas C. Frohlich and Alexander Kent, 24/7 WALL ST. (247WallSt.com) – The United States added 3.2 million jobs in 2014, a greater addition to...
David Warren and Jamie Stengle, ASSOCIATED PRESS IRVING, Texas (AP) — A 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday and got...
Meg Kinnard and Jeffrey Collins, ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal authorities have told a friend of the man accused of fatally shooting...
(The Washington Post) – When Fox Lake police officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was found mortally wounded along a forested road in this sleepy northern Illinois town, his fellow...
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel This past summer saw the deaths of five Black women in police custody across...
(The Washington Post) – Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to get noticed by his teachers. Instead, he got arrested. In an incident that has raised allegations...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times The highly anticipated trial of police brutality victim and former baseball star Robbie...
(New York Times) – Americans commonly — and mistakenly — believe that well-to-do black people no longer face the kind of discrimination that prevents them from...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A judge denied bail Monday for a white former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The co-chairman of a reform panel formed after the Ferguson police shooting of Michael...
By Erick Johnson Special to the NNPA from Chicago Crusader CHICAGO (NNPA) – It was Geneva Reed-Veal’s turn to speak about her life after the death of...
John Marzulli, THE DAILY NEWS NEW YORK (The Daily News) — A black cop is blowing the whistle on the NYPD Highway Division, alleging “racism...
(Fox News) — One of the newest teachers at the vaunted Yale University burnished his Ivy League resume in the Black Lives Matter movement. DeRay...
Cara Anna, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — “Black Lives Matter” just landed on the Fashion Week runway. Designer Kerby Jean-Raymond’s collection for the...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A judge said Friday he will rule “as expeditiously as possible” on whether to...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS News) — Four current and two former correctional officers within the Philadelphia prison system have been charged with supplying drugs and cell phones to inmates in exchange...
