(The Washington Post) – The St. Louis County prosecutor’s office is investigating an accusation of misconduct on the grand jury that is hearing the case...
(USA Today) – More than 3,000 people have registered to vote in Ferguson, Mo., since the death of Michael Brown — a surge in interest...
By Rebecca Rivas Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American The U.S. Department of Justice ordered Ferguson police officers to stop wearing “I...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Neill Franklin says there is nothing new about friction between law enforcement agencies and Blacks. And...
Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Matt Pearce, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES FERGUSON, Mo. (The L.A. Times)—Beauty Town has an elaborate video surveillance system that displays 16 angles...
UNITED NATIONS (Politico) — Speaking to world leaders here on Wednesday about the need to reduce racial tensions and respect human rights, President Barack Obama pointed...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Department of Justice investigators on Wednesday heard one story after another about police harassment and brutality in Ferguson,...
(Los Angeles Times) – A proposal for greater citizen oversight of the Ferguson Police Department has been criticized as “weak” and “insulting” by police experts...
RYAN PEARSON, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stevie Wonder said the mayor of Ferguson, Missouri, isn’t seeing the full picture a month after an...
(USA Today) – Newly discovered witnesses to the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of Missouri teen Michael Brown are corroborating other witnesses’ comments that Brown was...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Elected leaders in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a...
By Irma McClaurin Special to the NNPA from Insight News PERSPECTIVE They are not insurgents. They are not enemy combatants. They are not hostile enemy forces....
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department plans to open a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri. Police...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — The 18-year-old fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer didn’t face any juvenile charges at...
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lamont Jones and Keith Stephens stood 60 feet from each other, separated by four lanes of pavement...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – During a rousing, standing-room only town hall discussion dedicated to the shooting death of Michael...
Kimberly Kindy and Carol D. Leonnig, THE WASHINGTON POST FERGUSON, Mo. (The Washington Post)—Federal investigators are focused on one Ferguson, Mo., police officer who fatally...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – At noon on Saturday, August 9, Michael Brown, 18, and his friend, Dorian Johnson, crossed paths with...
CLAYTON, Mo. (USA Today) – St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar defended his department’s use of tear gas, smoke, batons, rifles and armored trucks in...
(CNN) — Could a newly released audio provide more clues on what led up to Michael Brown’s shooting death? The FBI has questioned a man who says he...
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American “There is a passage in the scripture that says what the devil meant...
by Richard B. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call ST. LOUIS – Black leaders took their demands to the office of county prosecutor...
by Ishmael Sistrunk Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American In the world of sports, big, strong black Americans are cheered, celebrated and...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the aftermath of the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed, Black teenager by a...
ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer Stepping to the pulpit at Greater Grace Church — minutes from where a suburban St. Louis police officer shot and killed...
