INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER — Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer Robert Lawson faces charges including battery and obstruction of justice following a criminal investigation of an incident where...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Just Us!” counts as one African American’s perspective on the condition of blacks in America and the 193-page book spotlights Carr’s style of...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Harold Washington Library’s Cindy Pritzker Auditorium was a full house at the opening screening of a new local series focusing on injustices in the...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — A group of activists that was infiltrated by LAPD informants and undercover officers at its meetings in 2017 demanded answers today regarding...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — County supervisors and local business leaders have announced the Fair Chance Hiring Initiative, which is aimed at encouraging companies to employ people who have...
INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER — Family and church members gathered recently to participate in the 10th annual Domestic Violence Awareness Walk in honor of Jeremiah Williams, who was...
GREENE COUNTY DEMOCRAT — On August 29, 2019, Jeff Patterson, Chief Judge for the Alabama Tax Tribunal rendered a decision voiding over $75 million in sales...
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD NEWS — The SPLC and many other advocates have shed light on how the criminal justice system criminalizes the poor and people of color and...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Gov. Gavin Newsom has granted pardons to seven people, including Susan H. Burton, a former inmate from East L.A. who now helps...
SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES — The number of states that have approved legalizing marijuana increases each year. Florida has taken another step in that direction. Prosecutors in...
THE AFRO — The controversial death of Baltimore County resident Tawon Boyd in police custody has led to a $1.1 million settlement for the family. The deal...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — LaTisha Nixon stood under a large oak tree in front of the apartment where her son died of a methamphetamine overdose she says...
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms joined 214 bipartisan mayors from across the nation signing on to a letter from The United States Conference of...
PASADENA JOURNAL — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt of Congress...
Los Angeles Sentinel — Local activists are urging District Attorney Jackie Lacey to “do her job” and find that the evidence presented to Los Angeles Sheriff’s...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — As Ward 8 residents continue to fall victim to violent crime, questions about the nature of police-community relations — particularly the police’s level of...
LA WATTS TIME — A reputed gang member was charged today with killing a USC jazz student, who was the son of an Oakland city councilwoman,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher thinks that focusing so much attention on the endorsements misses the bigger news story — that for all the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As a diverse collection of 500-plus Memphians steadily streamed into the Paradise Entertainment Complex on Georgia Avenue, there wasn’t so much a set...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The nation’s second-largest school moved Tuesday to end random metal-detector searches of students at secondary schools, a daily procedure that critics called...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Illegal guns and drugs are permeating black communities and destroying black men in unparalleled numbers since slavery. Is it happenstance or by design? What...
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Approximately one in 10 older people living in the United States has experienced physical, sexual, psychological or financial abuse or neglect, according...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson started an effort June 29 to prohibit private prisons from being constructed and operating within the city....
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Raynan Pearson will help his older brother Curtis Brooks drive a car, send email and utilize various features on an iPhone. Brooks had been...
NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER — In an effort to bolster security in school districts across the commonwealth, Gov. Tom Wolf signed Act 44 last June, mandating certain...