(CNN) — Photographer Maxine Helfman didn’t foresee the current outcry around civil rights in America back in 2012, when she began shooting portraits in the style of the...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The city is hoping to hand over the investigation of a 12-year-old boy’s fatal shooting by police to an outside agency, as...
JASON DEAREN, Associated Press LIVE OAK, Fla. (AP) — On a sticky hot Sunday in August 1952, a wealthy black woman named Ruby McCollum walked through...
AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of law enforcement officers killed by firearms jumped by 56 percent this year and included 15...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an effort to develop the next generation of global leaders, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund,...
by Avis Thomas-Lester Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Juanita Evangeline Moore hates Christmas. It was on Christmas night, in 1951, when her civil...
(Los Angeles Times) – The autopsy of Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man killed by police in South Los Angeles in August, shows he...
(L) Protestors want President Obama to address the problems of racism and police brutality. (R) Pastor Jedidiah Brown leads protest near the Chicago home of President...
The Associated Press The killings of two unarmed black men by white police officers in Missouri and New York this summer touched off protests and...
Yamiche Alchidor, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Protests against police treatment of black people have laid bare growing tensions between longstanding civil rights groups that have battled...
Frank McGurty, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters)—Tensions between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police are rooted in issues that go beyond racial...
Andrew Chung, REUTERS (Reuters)—One of the dozens of rallies and marches in New York this week to protest police violence against minorities was organized by...
Lisa Leff, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in the...
JEFF KAROUB, Associated Press ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — When it came time to pick a college, Abby Slusher leaned toward a private school near her southeastern...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press JIM SALTER, Associated Press BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) — Demonstrators took to the streets for a second night after a white police officer...
(New York Times) – William Zonicle did what all the job experts advise. He majored in a growing field like health care. He studied hard and...
(Time) – The way to honor those who defend our liberties with their lives — as did my father and grandfather — is not to...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rocker Jon Bon Jovi donned a New York Police Department T-shirt on stage. Well-wishers delivered home-baked cookies...
(Los Angeles Times) – The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a preliminary investigation into a video that has emerged of a song that plays...
(USA Today) – Defying Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plea for a moratorium on protests over police conduct, hundreds of demonstrators in New York City briefly...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The 2020 census is still more than five years away, but as the United States Census...
by Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News In no way should the names of Michael Brown and Eric Garner be...
JACK ELLIOTT JR., Associated Press PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Craggy-faced and ornery, Edgar Ray Killen bears the signs of his 89 years. His hands are still...
TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — The family of a Milwaukee man who was fatally shot by a city police officer say they aren’t giving...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent Ronald Lewis was standing on a street with his brother, who was selling drugs. When police were approaching, Lewis warned his...
