By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The understandable attention being focused on differing attitudes among Whites and Blacks toward law enforcement authorities in the wake of...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist “I can’t breathe,” gasped Eric Garner, again and again and again. “I can’t breathe,” he said, as several police officers were...
JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — He is a white man with a black son, a mayor elected on a campaign centered on mending...
(The Washington Post) – Of all the tragic elements in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, perhaps the most notable is how little it offers that...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The cellphone video of the last moments of Eric Garner’s life showed a white...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will conduct a federal investigation into the chokehold death of an unarmed black man after a...
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...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Three reports released this month on the arrest activities of the New York City Police Department should ratchet up...
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 Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Do you know what little respect Black and Hispanic citizens of New York City have for following the rules...
(New York Daily News) – Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said it’s “an irrefutable fact” that blacks and Hispanics are most disproportionately hit with summonses in predominately...
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 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...
JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights leaders and representatives from the retail industry met Thursday with New York...
U.S. DISTRICT COURT — The family of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed teen gunned down by police in his own home, hope that a federal civil suit...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Every year for the past decade, under the agency’s “stop-and-frisk” program, New York City police officers have stopped 500,000...
[New York Daily News] Amidst the controversial stop-and-frisk policy in New York City, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly gave some statistics that he felt would justify the...
by W.A.T.E.R. 17 Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Officers of the New York Police Department (Courtesy of the Amsterdam News) A...
[Black Enterprise] The Stop and Frisk Watch app, courtesy of the New York Civil Liberties Union, allows users to record videos of and report “stop and...
