NNPA NEWSWIRE — “On December 9, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, President and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, told Victor Blackwell, Anchor and Correspondent of CNN,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Those who purport that possession and use will not be criminal must be reminded that possession and drinking of alcohol during prohibition was...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We didn’t get everything right,” he (Bloomberg) admitted after citing various achievements during his administrations and warming to the central topic of stop-and-frisk....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Whites are caught with illegal drugs more often. However, according to the new analysis, Whites were more likely to be found with drugs,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Race has a tremendous impact in criminal trials, at least one African American juror can help even the playing field when it comes...
CHICAGO CRUSADER A lot of African Americans are expressing outrage over Kanye’s antics. They are embarrassed by him and some wish he would just disappear.
(Think Progress) – More than two years after a class action lawsuit exposed the quota policy behind the NYPD’s rampant use of stop-and-frisk, new lawsuits filed...
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 Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When racist attitudes, either conscious or subconscious, are combined with the discretionary powers that law enforcement officers have, the result...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police officers initiated stop, question and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than their New...
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...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist It’s been two months since Daniel Pantaleo strangled Eric Garner, 48, to death on a sidewalk in Staten Island, N.Y....
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist What are we talking about? We talking about fiction or we talking about fact? You talking about fiction? Hold up...
[Global Post] [fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=hQFkHtrDBFs” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hQFkHtrDBFs/maxresdefault.jpg”] After a long public debate and legal battle over the NYPD’s habit of stopping and frisking people on the street –...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Bill De Blasio is garnering national attention for his landslide election in the New York City mayor’s race. De...
By TaNoah Morgan Special to the NNPA WASHINGTON (NNPA ) – This summer, my daughter turned 13, and after she’d spent two years at an...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The stop-and-frisk policy practiced by the New York City police department was little more than “indirect racial...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Every year for the past decade, under the agency’s “stop-and-frisk” program, New York City police officers have stopped 500,000...
[New York Daily News] Amidst the controversial stop-and-frisk policy in New York City, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly gave some statistics that he felt would justify the...
[Black Enterprise] The Stop and Frisk Watch app, courtesy of the New York Civil Liberties Union, allows users to record videos of and report “stop and...
