(CNN) – The bizarre circumstances surrounding Freddie Gray’s death have inflamed tensions across the country. How could a man suffer a severe spinal cord injury after getting...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – An ordinary Internet search on Ota Benga yields black-and-white photos of a petite Black man, almost naked,...
KELLY P. KISSEL, Associated Press SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Tulsa County volunteer deputy who shot and killed a suspect after mistaking...
DETROIT (USA Today) — A motorist whose arrest was caught on a patrol car video as he was repeatedly punched in the head by an Inkster,...
by Brian E. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call COLUMBIA, S.C. (FinalCall.com) – What began as a minor traffic stop apparently for a...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women working full time earned just 64 cents for every dollar White men made in...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The lawyer for the family of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of spinal injuries during an arrest...
(CBS News) – After a tumultuous high school experience, Long Island senior Daria Rose has a bright future ahead of her: The 18-year-old applied to...
FERGUSON, Mo. (CBS News) – A memorial tree for Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old black man who was killed last summer by a white police officer in...
Michael Eric Dyson, THE NEW REPUBLIC (The New Republic) — “Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned” is the best-known line from William Congreve’s The...
Ben Brumfield, CNN BALTIMORE (CNN) — Freddie Gray was in perfect health until police chased and tackled him in Baltimore over a week ago, his lawyer...
Sam Roberts, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., the first surgeon to successfully implant an automatic heart defibrillator...
Benjamin Mueller, THE NEW YORK TIMES NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (The New York Times) — Civil rights groups in North Charleston, S.C., asked the United States Department...
Deborah Barfield Berry and Ledyard King, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today) – Five years after the massive BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gulf Coast communities...
Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY (USA Today) — Police who kill suspects in the line of duty rarely face charges, experts say, but recent incidents...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — A Pentagon official sat before a committee of the Washington State Legislature in January and declared that the U.S. military supported a bill...
Washington (CNN) – As the Missouri National Guard prepared to deploy to help quell riots in Ferguson, Missouri, that raged sporadically last year, the guard...
Atlanta (CBS 46) – Dr. Joseph Lowery released a statement Thursday saying that the prison time and fines handed out in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating trial were...
TULSA, Okla. (CBS News) – There are allegations that the Tulsa reserve deputy who shot an unarmed man to death did not have the training...
(The Washington Post) – Lawmakers in several states are urging limits on how welfare recipients use public benefits, suggesting that the poor are buying things like lobster, filet mignon, vacations aboard...
(New York Times) – The protest by tens of thousands of low-wage workers, students and activists in more than 200 American cities on Wednesday is the...
(Politico) – Loretta Lynch’s allies are launching a hunger strike until she’s confirmed as attorney general, but they could be waiting weeks if Republicans follow...
(CNN) – Ursula Ward kept repeating her son’s name — Odin. She steadied herself against the podium in the Fall River, Massachusetts, courtroom and occasionally...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Victims of police torture under former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge would share $5.5 million, receive an apology and...
