Richard Pérez-Peña and Timothy Williams, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — They began as workaday interactions between the police and the public,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In light of the conversations about police abuse, unwarranted stops and arrests, and homicide cases involving Black people and police...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Like so many, I have been deeply disturbed by the senseless loss of Black male lives at the hands...
Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY HEMPSTEAD, Texas (USA Today) — Mourners gathered on Saturday to lay Sandra Bland to rest, as questions about the circumstances of...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The recent spotlight on systematic racial profiling and police brutality against Black boys and men has exposed a painful...
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — The family of a Chicago-area woman found dead in a Texas jail cell last week is ordering an independent autopsy,...
Jeff Amy, ASSOCIATED PRESS STONEWALL, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday night at a baseball park in a small Mississippi town to remember...
BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police car camera footage ordered released by a federal judge show a California man disobeying orders to keep...
Jon Swaine, THE GUARDIAN STONEWALL, Miss. (The Guardian) — State officials in Mississippi are investigating the death of an unarmed black man who was killed...
JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amid national debate over holding officers criminally accountable for killings by police, New York is giving such cases...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist In Manchester, one of Great Britain’s largest cities, only 209 of the 6,700 police officers carry guns. These officers are...
Al Baker, J. David Goodman, and Benjamin Mueller, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times) — Eric Garner was lumbering along a sidewalk...
(Los Angeles Times) – When Ezell Ford’s mother learned Tuesday afternoon that L.A. police commissioners had faulted one of the officers who fatally shot her son,...
Kevin Rector, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — More than a dozen civil and religious groups calling for police reform in Baltimore will...
Joel Rubin and Kate Mather, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES (The L.A. Times) — Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and the Police Department’s independent watchdog have...
Jamil Smith, THE NEW REPUBLIC CLEVELAND (The New Republic) — Before last week, the last time I’d been home to Cleveland, Ohio was in December...
(Ebony) – “I sent two children to play that day and only one came back.” On November 22, 2014, Samaria Rice’s youngest daughter Tajai Rice, 15,...
(The Atlantic) – The recent spate of highly publicized killings of black men by police officers has driven many people to wonder how common such...
Kimberly Kindy, plus reporting by Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins, Steven Rich, Keith L. Alexander and Wesley Lowery, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — In...
Mark Gillespie, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland emerged unscathed and intact after a day of protests following the acquittal of a white patrolman who...
Jason Hanna, Ralph Ellis, and Greg Botelho, CNN CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) — Yes, Cleveland police Officer Michael Brelo stood on a car and shot 15 times...
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...
Todd Richmond, ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When a white police officer killed an unarmed biracial teen in Wisconsin’s capital city, the shooting quickly...
JAY REEVES, Associated Press JEFF AMY, Associated Press HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Marvin Banks’ drug use and drinking had worsened in recent years and he was...
