NNPA NEWSWIRE — Over the last ten years there have been several deaths in police custody shootings that have gained national attention. Most of them have...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — We owe a debt of gratitude to Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Karen Bass for their tireless efforts to reach an agreement, despite...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The NNPA is pleased and excited to do this live stream with our Brother Leader Ice Cube on behalf of the Black Press...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — More than a year after her son died in a police-involved shooting, Kenithia Alston said she still has questions about that fateful evening that...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “When I went to the police academy, which was some time ago, a lot of people were coming back from Iraq, and they...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — The federal government is launching a national database that will track when law enforcement officers use deadly force, providing more transparency about...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — Police brutality continues to plague Black and Brown communities and interactions that would otherwise be mundane and uneventful for other Californians often...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It has been both interesting and unsettling to watch the attacks from the political Right on the Black Lives Matter...
Matt Ferner, THE HUFFINGTON POST WILMINGTON, Del. (The Huffington Post) – A graphic cell phone video purportedly shows police in Wilmington, Delaware, fatally shooting a...
Phil Trexler, WKYC-TV Cleveland via USA TODAY CLEVELAND (USA Today) — The dispatcher who told police that a male outside of a Cleveland recreation center...
(The Washington Post) – When Fox Lake police officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was found mortally wounded along a forested road in this sleepy northern Illinois town, his fellow...
Cara Anna, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — “Black Lives Matter” just landed on the Fashion Week runway. Designer Kerby Jean-Raymond’s collection for the...
(The Washington Post) – Here’s Fox News earlier this week, shamelessly exploiting a tragedy to gin up outrage. They certainly aren’t the only ones. Here...
(The Washington Post) – A grand jury has charged a white Portsmouth, Va., police officer with first degree murder in connection with the killing of...
(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...
Tom Foreman, Jr., ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A juror who heard evidence in the trial of a white North Carolina police officer said...
Nigel Duara, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ST. LOUIS (The L.A. Times) — An 18-year-old black man died from a single gunshot wound to the back...
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...
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...
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.,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Nineteen-year-old Zachary Hammond was sitting in a Hardee’s parking lot in his hometown of Seneca, SC, on a first date....
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...
(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...
