(The Washington Post) – Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to get noticed by his teachers. Instead, he got arrested. In an incident that has raised allegations...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times The highly anticipated trial of police brutality victim and former baseball star Robbie...
John Marzulli, THE DAILY NEWS NEW YORK (The Daily News) — A black cop is blowing the whistle on the NYPD Highway Division, alleging “racism...
(The Guardian) – The former US No 1 tennis player James Blake was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed in New York as he was preparing to attend...
by William J. Ford Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Vanessa Fleeton recalled when a Black police officer became rude to her a few...
Don Babwin, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Department will allow independent evaluations of its stop-and-frisk procedures that critics say target blacks under...
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...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Car lending is on the rise, and rising with it is a hidden, unfair, abusive and discriminatory practice: car dealer...
By Ashley Johnson Special to the NNPA from the New Pittsburgh Courier A Wilkins Township man who has dedicated himself to fitness and helping others, claims...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray, 25, was racially profiled and then chased down by the Baltimore police officers. He subsequently...
JACQUES BILLEAUD, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The sheriff for metro Phoenix begins a four-day hearing Tuesday that could bring him fines, damage his credibility and...
By Rev. Amos C. Brown NNPA Guest Columnist Easter was last Sunday, but Rev. Franklin Graham is still wiping egg off his face. In an...
Soraya Nadia McDonald, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Former “Grey’s Anatomy” star Isaiah Washington had a suggestion for Chris Rock about how to avoid...
(The Huffington Post) – Taraji P. Henson’s decision to enroll her son at Howard University as a result of the 20-year-old’s experience with racial profiling by...
Brennan Williams, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—As the investigation on this week’s brutal arrest of University of Virginia student Martese Johnson continues, many UVA students...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist With the recent terrorists attacks in Paris over a largely unknown satirical newspaper that poked fun at Islam and Mohammed,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I find it very unsettling to hear police officers discuss how they believe that BlackLivesMatter protesters and certain politicians,...
JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration needed an exemption from new Obama administration rules restricting racial profiling by the government so...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration issued guidelines Monday that restrict the ability of federal law enforcement agencies to profile on the...
Eric Tucker, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents who guard the border and screen passengers at airports would be exempt from new racial profiling guidelines...
(USA Today) – Police in Michigan released a cell-phone video recorded by a deputy called to investigate an African-American man who was walking with his...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Speaking at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — the church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached —...
Jackson Connor, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—The latest installment of CNN’s “Black in America” documentary series will focus on how the lives of young, black men...
(USA Today) – Just after a heated summer that included a handful of fatalities at the hands of police that raised questions of racism, the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist St. Louis County has 90 municipalities – ranging in population from 13 to nearly 52,000 – and most of them...
