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Protests In U.S. Cities Against Police Violence Prompt Arrests
Protesters in several U.S. cities blocked highways and swarmed police precincts, leading to at least two dozen arrests in demonstrations touched off by fresh cases of police violence against unarmed black men.
Read MoreProtesters Against Police Brutality Begin 9-Day March From New York To D.C.
A march from New York City to Washington, D.C., to protest police brutality started Monday morning in Staten Island — the borough where Eric Garner died last summer after being put into a chokehold by a New York police officer.
Read MoreHere’s A News Report We’d Be Reading If Walter Scott’s Killing Wasn’t On Video
This article is written as if the alleged murder of Walter Scott had not been captured on video that was made public Tuesday by The New York Times and other outlets.
A North Charleston police officer was forced to use his service weapon Saturday during a scuffle with a suspect who tried to overpower him and seize the officer’s Taser, authorities said.
Read MoreJames Clyburn Tells Young People To Turn Their Cameras On Police
Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Wednesday that, in the wake of a video showing a South Carolina police officer fatally shooting an unarmed black man, young people should keep their cameras turned on police.
Read MoreFerguson Is Having an Election, but Will Ferguson Vote?
A city plagued by racial discrimination and low voter turnout hopes to turn over a new leaf on both after only 6 percent of eligible African-American voters cast a ballot in 2012.
Read MoreRonald ‘Ra Diggs’ Herron Gets Life Sentence After Rap Lyrics Used As Evidence
An accused New York City gang member was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for a slew of violent crimes, including three murders, after being convicted in a trial in which prosecutors used his graphic rap lyrics against him.
Read More85 years after infamous lynching, another noose stirs tension in Indiana town
Assistant fire chief Rick Backs has since been suspended by the Marion Fire Department; he released a statement apologizing for forming a noose during a knot-tying exercise at the station house Feb. 13.
Read MoreMichelle Obama Declares ‘Black Girls Rock!’
Obama got among the night’s loudest ovations as she came on stage and declared “Black girls rock!” – the slogan and name of the organization founded by Beverly Bond, which is designed to uplift young black girls, a group that often has difficulty finding positive and reaffirming images of themselves in the world.
Read MoreOle Miss Student Indicted For Hanging Noose Around Statue Honoring School’s First Black Enrollee
A federal grand jury indicted Graeme Phillip Harris, a student at the University of Mississippi on two separate civil rights charges on Friday for hanging a noose and a flag depicting a Confederate symbol around a campus statue honoring James Meredith, the first African-American student to attend the university.
Read MoreGeorge Zimmerman Says God and Justice Are on His Side
In a new video released by his law firm, Trayvon Martin’s killer says he feels no survivor’s remorse because it was God’s plan for the teenager to die.
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