BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In an America shaped once again by racial hostility and the rollback of diversity protections under the Trump administration, renowned Civil Rights Attorney...
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced that Daniel Penny, who applied a fatal chokehold to a man on a New York City subway, will be charged with manslaughter....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Ben Crump, the renowned civil rights attorney and freedom fighter, elicited the night’s biggest applause when he accepted the newly minted Justice Icon...
By Makiah Hiley A decade after the Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) opened class enrollment it is putting on its first all-Black theater production, Every...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Ahmaud Arbery was denied the opportunity to define his own legacy, but America, we have the power to ensure that it is one...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Many of these murders are modern day lynchings and the evidence is swept under the rug. Ahmaud Arbery’s death was a case where...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Roddy Bryan’s lawyer, Kevin Gough, told reporters earlier this month that the “Citizen’s arrest is a big part of our case, a big...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “As this year of racial awareness is drawing to a close, it’s deeply troubling that incidents like this one, in which a Black...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — President Trump wants to paper over the living wound of racism. He’s issued Executive Orders and established a new national commission designed to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Many seek to ascertain whether North Pontotoc District Attorney John Weddle should have recused himself because of possible ties to Carpenter and whether...
ROLLING OUT — Even as a mentor in rap, Chuck D continues to put in work behind the mic. In 2017, Public Enemy released the album Nothing...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Most recently, Crump has represented three of the most high-profile cases in America today in his representation of the families of Floyd, Ahmaud...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “When I think about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless other Black people murdered by racial hatred, I could not help...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — National Newspaper Publishers Association Chair Karen Carter Richards and NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., and numerous other Black Press...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It was reminiscent of Eric Garner of Staten Island, NY, who was put in a chokehold by a New York police officer. Garner...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The first two DAs assigned the Arbery case recused because of connections to Gregory McMichaels, 64, a retired investigator for the Brunswick police...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "The comments made at the end of the Breakfast Club interview were in jest, but let's be clear about what the VP was...
NNPA NEWSWIIRE — Twenty-five-year-old Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed while jogging after a former police officer and his son chased him down because...
THE BURTON WIRE — On this particular day, Gregory McMichael, 64, saw Arbery running through their neighborhood and alleges he fit the description of someone who...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, went viral on social media on May 6, months after his murder. The video shows Arbery...
