(Mother Jones) – When police officers kill unarmed citizens they are rarely charged, let alone convicted of a crime. The victims’ families often turn to civil complaints...
SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Like many states, Oklahoma wants to be a tourist destination. And leaders here believe they have an ideal...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — With the dismissal of one of two lawsuits that effectively pitted them against each other, the Rev. Martin Luther...
CLEVELAND (New York Times) — It began with a swap: one boy’s cellphone for another’s replica of a Colt pistol. One of the boys went to...
SAM HANANEL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration may need the vote of a frequent conservative antagonist on the Supreme Court to preserve a...
RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — After a 2007 report showed that Iowa had the nation’s highest disparity for sending blacks to...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — The federal investigation into the shooting death of black Ferguson, Mo., teenager Michael Brown has yielded insufficient evidence to support criminal...
SEAN CARLIN, Associated Press GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press BRIDGETON, N.J. (AP) — A police video of officers confronting and then fatally shooting a black man in...
SAM HANANEL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday in a debate over a decades-old strategy for fighting discrimination in housing....
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson’s first municipal election since a fatal police shooting sparked months of protests and exposed the city’s...
(Los Angeles Times) – The role of art in our society is not to reenact history but to offer an interpretation of human experience as seen...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The daughter of the slain civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. exhorted the nation on King’s...
ST. LOUIS (ST. Louis Post-Dispatch) – In the latest echo from last year’s Ferguson unrest, protesters invoking Michael Brown’s name burst into an auditorium at Harris-Stowe State...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black college educators and supporters are sharply split over whether President Obama’s proposal to offer a...
By Nathan Hardin Special to the NNPA from The Fayetteville Observer PEMBROKE – Civil rights leader Benjamin Chavis kicked off a week-long Dr. Martin Luther King...
Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrice Cullors-Brignac, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—Today, people across the country pause and remember the legacy of civil rights leader, Reverend...
Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrice Cullors-Brignac, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—Today, people across the country pause and remember the legacy of civil rights leader, Reverend...
Larry Copeland, USA TODAY ATLANTA (USA Today) – Against the backdrop of ongoing protests around the country over police treatment of black men, Martin Luther...
Corey Williams, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) — Protesters on Wednesday called for criminal charges to be brought against two police officers who appear to be...
(USA Today) – North Miami Beach police are facing criticism for using mug shots of black suspects for target practice. One of the six bullet-riddled...
(New York Times) – The leaders of Washington University in St. Louis have decided that it has a distinction they no longer want: the nation’s least economically diverse top college....
(Los Angeles Times) – A family feud among the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s children was on display in an Atlanta courtroom Tuesday as his...
(Los Angeles Times) – A family feud among the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s children was on display in an Atlanta courtroom Tuesday as his...
(The Economic Populist) – Yes, the rich pay more in taxes (because they earn so much more) — but they don’t usually pay more as a...
(The Economic Populist) – Yes, the rich pay more in taxes (because they earn so much more) — but they don’t usually pay more as a...