NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City grand jury cleared a white police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black...
by Khorri Atkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Queens Democratic City Councilman Rory Lancman plans to introduce a package of...
KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a man who died after being placed in a police chokehold has filed a notice...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist It’s been two months since Daniel Pantaleo strangled Eric Garner, 48, to death on a sidewalk in Staten Island, N.Y....
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and never will.” I often wonder what Black people...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an effort to combat police brutality in the Black community, the National Bar Association...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist It is inaccurate for newscasters to say, “In the aftermath of the recent racial turmoil in Ferguson, Mo., calm...
by Saeed Shabazz Special to the NNPA from The Final Call NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) – Including Michael Brown, five unarmed Black men have been killed...
by Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Overwhelmed is a word that was repeatedly uttered by the family members...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Out of every momentous national tragedy that Black Americans have continued to endure in the United States, there...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Remember the Jena Six? Some 15,000 to 20,000 protesters went to Jena, La. in 2006 to demonstrate against injustice. After...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Never did we think we would be planning a funeral, we were waiting on his first day of school....
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Under other circumstances one could simply ridicule the explanations offered by the Ferguson police regarding the killing of Michael...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist When will it stop? The police killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager in the streets of Ferguson, Mo., coming...
by Courtney Jacobs Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper In a new video, Spike Lee expressed his opinion about a recent incident in which...
by A.B. Nickerson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News When a white police officer kills an unarmed Black man, as it happened...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist It was one of the most difficult scenes in Spike Lee’s classic movie “Do the Right Thing,” the brutal strangulation of...
NEW YORK (AP) — An overflow crowd packed a church and sang songs on Wednesday at the funeral of a man who died in police...
By Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA NEW YORK – Rev. Al Sharpton was in the middle of his speech recounting how Eric Garner, 43, had...