WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The LAPD uses a number of predictive programs to focus crime-fighting efforts in certain neighborhoods and on specific chronic offenders by analyzing data,
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — The video is brief but disturbing: An officer is seen hitting an unarmed suspect with his pistol as the man falls into...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The reality in many of these universities is that by the time you subtract preferences for minorities, the spots reserved for athletes, the...
ROLLINGOUT.COM — The federal government unsealed court documents in Boston that exposed a startling tale of privilege.
THE AFRO — The official confirmation of a new police commissioner marks a watershed moment for a city that has been without a permanent top cop for...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — An estimated 64,000 Black girls and women across the United States that have gone missing. Iniaya Wilson and Skylar Minnie are also among...
Members of the Oscar Grant family, Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson and Beatrice “Aunt B X” Johnson went to Sacramento Monday to speak in the wake of...
Victor McElhaney, 21, was shot and killed in Los Angeles on March 10, 2019. His mother, District 3 Oakland City Councilmember Lynette McElhaney, released the following...
The following is an open letter to Oakland Police Department Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, Mayor Libby Schaaf, and City Administrator Sabrina Landreth. The Oakland Black Officers Association...
The Coalition for Police Accountability (CPA) is calling on Federal Compliance Director Robert Warsaw to fire Oakland’s Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick. Their call comes about a...
THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — It’s been six months since the racially-motivated desecration of Walnut Grove Missionary Baptist Church, another incident in a growing trend of such crimes...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “…On March 27, 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that under the Fourth Amendment, when a law enforcement officer is pursuing a fleeing...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — At a press conference in downtown Sacramento, County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said the officers were justified in unloading 20 shots at...
THE AFRO — The MOU would require an agreement with the Baltimore Police Department.
ROLLINGOUT.COM — The Jackson family is claiming Michael Jackson was “naive” about children but wasn’t an abuser.
THE AFRO — The alleged murder of a woman known as a “good samaritan,” by a panhandler shocked many in Baltimore.
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors postponed discussion of a report by the Office of Inspector General.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “During the 1993 investigation into Michael’s alleged pedophilia, his sister Latoya created a firestorm by saying that she ‘would not be a silent...
THE AFRO — A carjacking inadvertently turned into a kidnapping but led to a happy ending- a saga that began in Prince George’s County and concluded in...
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Mayor Randall Woodfin on Thursday said bluntly that “gun violence in the City of Birmingham is a public health crisis.”
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — The faith-based community must speak with one voice in creating second chances for people released from prison.
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Fairfax’s accusers, who both are Black, have accepted invitations to address their allegations at a public hearing.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Jackson’s estate has sued HBO for $100 million claiming that the network entered into an agreement with the singer in 1992 that prohibited...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Kathrine McKee is a former L.A. morning talk show host who alleges Cosby raped her in 1974 in a Detroit hotel room while...
ROLLINGOUT.COM — The 36-year-old actor who plays Jamal Lyon on the show has been written out of the finale.