DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — Congressional Democrats are looking to put teeth back in the Voting Rights Act, six years after the Supreme Court gutted a key enforcement...
WALLER COUNTY, TEXAS (The Huffington Post) – On July 13, Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, was found dead in her jail cell in Waller County,...
MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for the state of Texas have asked a judge to dismiss a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the mother...
By Jerry Ford II Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Community leader Quanell X, former Councilwoman Jolanda Jones, Bishop James Dixon, and the...
By Marilyn Marshall Special to the NNPA from the Houston Defender HOUSTON (NNPA) – Demonstrators who recently gathered outside the Waller County Jail demanded justice for Sandra...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A broad coalition of civil rights groups delivered more than 500,000 signed petitions to the Justice...
HOUSTON (USA Today) — The family of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman found dead in a Texas jail cell last month, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Houston...
David Montgomery, THE NEW YORK TIMES HEMPSTEAD, Tex. (The New York Times) — The Texas sheriff whose policies have come under intense criticism in the aftermath...
MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press JASON KEYSER, Associated Press HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — The autopsy of a black woman who was found dead in a Texas jail...
PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When Sandra Bland refused to put out her cigarette, the police officer opened...
(Salon) – At age sixteen, I went to a high school dance with a white male friend. When we pulled up to the gym, music blaring...
(New York Times) – A dashboard camera video released by Texas officials, which contains vulgar language, confirms accounts of a physical confrontation between Sandra Bland and...
