(Slate) – Baltimore’s streets are quiet again. Baltimore’s state’s attorney Marilyn J. Mosby moved quickly in securing indictments against six police officers in the death of...
(Democracy Now) – The national conversation on policing African-American communities is focused on Cleveland today after a major federal settlement and a controversial verdict. The...
Mark Gillespie, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland emerged unscathed and intact after a day of protests following the acquittal of a white patrolman who...
By Stephanie Carson, N.C. News Service Special to the NNPA via The Charlotte Post RALEGH (NNPA) – At a time when the manner in which...
By Lynette Holloway Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender Black women and girls matter too. Don’t forget. #sayhername #BlackWomenMatter #blackwomenslivesmatter pic.twitter.com/SoQde3dshr — satan with...
(CBS News) – On the first day of her job, Attorney General Loretta Lynch was tasked with briefing the president on race riots in Baltimore, reports “CBS This...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A grand jury’s decision to indict all six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, who died of...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The prevailing images of protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, over police killings of black men were of...
by Richard B. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call BALTIMORE (The Final Call) – The tears Tawanda Jones sheds flow freely at times....
JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The makeshift mid-street memorial that marked where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer last summer...
(ABC News) – Shaky cell phone video released today may show officers with Freddie Gray during one of the stops made while the Baltimore man was in...
Special to the NNPA from The Miami Times While America and the rest of the world watch with shock and dismay as Black citizens are gunned...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — An attorney for the family of a black 18-year-old shot and killed last October by an off-duty, white...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The prevailing images of protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, over police killings of black men were of...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — President Barack Obama ended long-running federal transfers of some combat-style gear to local law enforcement on Monday in...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the wake of the tragic death of Freddie Gray and the protests that followed in...
TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Some of the Madison Police Department’s toughest critics peacefully protested in the hours after a prosecutor said he...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Are we living in the last days? If so, what are we doing about it? It seems the world is...
Mark Puente and Meredith Kohn, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — When Baltimore State’s Attorney Maryliyn Mosby charged six police officers in the...
PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ chief law enforcement official called Snoop Dogg a “dope smoking cop hater” before reprimanding a state...
(The Guardian) – The Baltimore police lieutenant charged with the manslaughter of Freddie Gray allegedly threatened to kill himself and the husband of his ex-girlfriend, during incidents...
DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. House seat in deeply Democratic New York City will remain under Republican...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — To some, a makeshift shrine in the middle of the Ferguson street where...
BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged Tuesday to improve the city’s police department after meeting with the family of a...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Early this year, Megan E. Green, a St. Louis alderwoman, met with officials of a local police union to discuss a...
