JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The family of an unarmed black man shot to death by a white former police chief of a...
Kevin Rector, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — After months of sharply worded motions by prosecutors and defense attorneys, legal questions surrounding the...
(The Root) – It’s never much of a surprise when I hear it, but it stings all the same. Freddie Gray would be alive today if...
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American “Hey, how have you been,” said Cathy Daniels, affectionately known to Ferguson protesters as...
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Kendric Henderson’s face cringed as she slowly limped on crutches to join the march...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The latest on the trial of a white North Carolina police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death...
BRIDGETON, N.J. (AP) — A grand jury voted not to file charges against two police officers for fatally shooting a man in New Jersey who defied...
(Mic) – Since Jan. 1, 2015, police in the United States have killed a staggering 745 people. According to statistics provided to Mic by research collective Mapping Police Violence, American police...
(Slate) – On Dec. 18, 2012, in Durham, North Carolina, police officer Kelly Stewart pulled over Carlos Antonio Riley for a routine traffic stop. What happened...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officers arrested at least nine people and deployed tear gas amid protests in St....
by Terry Shropshire Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World UNION CITY, Ga. (Atlanta Daily World) — The acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A grand jury indicted two former Atlanta-area police officers on murder charges after prosecutors said they used stun guns...
By Marilyn Marshall Special to the NNPA from the Houston Defender HOUSTON (NNPA) – Demonstrators who recently gathered outside the Waller County Jail demanded justice for Sandra...
By Jerry Ford II Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times On the day the family of Sandra Bland filed a lawsuit against the...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist After three days of peaceful demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson, Mo.,...
TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — As prosecutors attempted to discredit him, a white Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer completed nearly six hours of testimony...
(NBC News) – An Ohio woman whose death in police custody is being investigated, may have been improperly medicated by authorities, newly released documents show. Ralkina...
(Daily Kos) – Christian Taylor, 19. Amber Monroe, 20. Tyrone Harris, 18. Andre Green, 15. Those are just a few of the black people murdered last...
by EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — An unarmed college football player tried to smash through a locked glass door in a North Texas car...
(Los Angeles Times) – Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday a measure that prohibits secret grand juries to weigh in on cases involving excessive or...
JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The brother of a college football player killed by police at a Texas car...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigations launched by three agencies into a psychological firm tasked with assessing the mental health...
(CBS News) – One year ago, the nation watched as the city of Ferguson, Mo., erupted. St. Louis police, dressed in riot gear, stood in a...
(The Guardian) – A police officer in Alabama proposed murdering a black resident and creating bogus evidence to suggest the killing was in self-defense, the Guardian has...
FERGUSON, Mo. (New York Times) — Brianna West stepped before the judge as her daughter Morgan, 3, fidgeted beside her. Ms. West had waited weeks to...
