(Reuters) – The death of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy fatally shot by police in November has been formally ruled a homicide, according to a county...
CLEVELAND (AP) — A 12-year-old boy carrying a pellet gun died from a single shot fired by a rookie police officer, according to an autopsy released...
TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Recent protests against the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have created a conundrum for...
(The Washington Post) – It was 1 a.m. on a Saturday when the call came. A friend, a University of Virginia freshman who earlier said she...
(VOA News) – The average American family used to look very much like the fictional Cleaver family in the classic television show Leave It to Beaver, with...
(Ebony) – Earlier this week, it was revealed that the nation’s oldest African American sororities has issued directives to members ordering them not to wear official...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press KRISTIN J. BENDER, Associated Press Jorge “Jinho” Ferreira feels the tension between being black and carrying a badge every day as...
(Mashable) – Medical students staged so-called “die-ins” in universities across the U.S. on Wednesday as demonstrations on race issues in America continued. The students aimed...
MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A firefighter hailed for her work ethic and the pride she took in being assigned to the city’s...
PHOENIX (AP) — A poignant image has emerged from protests over a deadly police shooting in Phoenix. The 9-year-old daughter of Rumain Brisbon was among those...
BERKELEY, Calif. (New York Times) — This is the college town where the Free Speech Movement was born 50 years ago, spreading across the nation with...
(The Root) – Collectively known as the Divine Nine, black fraternities and sororities have long been central to the African-American college experience—standing as vanguards of social...
By Floyd Alvin Galloway Special to the NNPA from The Arizona Informant The death of Rumain Brisbon Tuesday, December 2, threw Phoenix into the national spotlight...
(The Washington Post) – Investigators combed through wreckage Tuesday in a Gaithersburg neighborhood where a small plane crashed into a home, killing six people, including a mother...
KRISTIN J. BENDER, Associated Press PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of people marched through Berkeley for a third night a row, blocking...
(New York Daily News) – After winning a landmark $41 million settlement from the city, the Central Park Five are looking to make New York...
(Tele Sur) – An African-American man is in a critical condition after being shot a by a white police officer in Florida early Monday morning. Witnesses have stated Cedric Bartee had his hands...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal autopsy in the Ferguson police shooting reached similar conclusions to those performed by local officials...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is prescribing time and vigilance to tackle problems as entrenched in American society as racism and bias. He also...
Allen G. Breed, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)—Ferguson, Missouri. Cleveland, Ohio. Staten Island, New York. Eutawville, South Carolina. In each place, individuals — all unarmed except for...
Eric Tucker, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents who guard the border and screen passengers at airports would be exempt from new racial profiling guidelines...
Brian Melley, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — In courtrooms across the country every day, a price tag is put on the freedom of the accused...
Gillian Mohney, ABC NEWS (ABC News)—Two hashtags with stories of alleged racial bias by police have gone viral in the wake of a decision by...
David A. Lieb, ASSOCIATED PRESS JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chants of “Hands Up. Don’t Shoot!” echoed through the Missouri Capitol on Friday as hundreds of...
