Bates, co-founder of the Arkansas State Press newspaper, was a mentor to the nine students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. A statue of late civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates is one step closer to being completed and replacing an image […]
Aaron Hernandez, a former New England Patriots football player, went to jail for killing a man and allegedly committed suicide while in prison. His daughter’s mother has recently been accused of misusing the money Hernandez left in a trust fund for their daughter. According to The Boston […]
Police were also more than twice as likely to use force against people they thought were Black, as compared to people whom officers believed to be white, per the report. LOS ANGELES (AP) — California law enforcement searched teenagers whom officers perceived to be Black […]
Source: Jay L. Clendenin / Getty Less than one year after descendants of the Los Angeles’ Bruce family were given back the land initially seized from them by the city through eminent domain, the family is selling the land back to […]
Court documents show that Krieg Butler, 36, the neighbor of Sinzae Reed, had previously been found guilty of misdemeanor domestic abuse in Franklin County, making it illegal for him to possess a firearm. Columbus police said a man who was detained and then released […]
A British court has reversed a ruling that left a Black teenager locked up and sentenced to 18 months in a youth offenders’ facility after he stabbed two other men. After an appeal, officials recognized the boy was being provoked by the “victims,” who […]
The Tampa Police Department has fired a police officer videotaped dragging a handcuffed detainee across the ground into jail. The ex-cop was released because he violated a nearly decade-old law forbidding officers from dragging suspects, even uncooperative, on the ground during an arrest. The TPD released […]
Viviane Faver Whether in blues, rock, gospel or jazz, Black female artists in the music industry have made historical impacts over the years. From pioneers like Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross, to modern-day icons Missy Elliott, Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, and Rihanna, numerous women […]
A Pennsylvania man’s death on the medical block of a detention center has raised the record number of fatalities in the facility and brought on questions about the treatment of people being detained there. Richard Carter, 63, died in the Dauphin County Prison after a “medical […]
Former child star Orlando Brown was back in police custody last week after he was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges. The former That’s So Raven star was arrested on Thursday in Lima, Ohio, and held on a $25,000 bond, NBC San Diego reports. Police were called to a residence where they witnessed a […]
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