Jeff Amy, ASSOCIATED PRESS STONEWALL, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday night at a baseball park in a small Mississippi town to remember...
A partnership between the local NAACP and Miami-Dade State Attorney highlights a lack of police prosecution By Derek Joy Special to the NNPA from The...
CHICAGO (WLS) – Newly obtained video shows the arrest of 28-year-old Sandra Bland, a Naperville woman whose death at a Texas jail is being angrily questioned by...
(Daily Kos) – Sandra Bland died in police custody this past Monday. Visiting Texas from Chicago to interview for a college job at her alma...
BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police car camera footage ordered released by a federal judge show a California man disobeying orders to keep...
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a black man who died after being placed in a white...
John Marzulli, Ginger Adams Otis, and Stephen Rex Brown, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NEW YORK (The New York Daily News) — A $5 million...
John Marzulli, Ginger Adams Otis, and Stephen Rex Brown, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NEW YORK (The New York Daily News) — A $5 million...
Rachel L. Swarns, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times) — The lanky black detective strode to the front of the...
(CNN) – Baltimore authorities are investigating after photos emerged showing a sign inside the door of a police van that reads, “Enjoy your ride, cuz...
(CNN) – Baltimore authorities are investigating after photos emerged showing a sign inside the door of a police van that reads, “Enjoy your ride, cuz...
JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A grand jury should review operations at an Oklahoma sheriff’s office that sent onto the streets a 73-year-old...
BEIJING (AP) — Racial discrimination and police abuses are rife in the United States, China’s Cabinet said Friday, in a report intended as a counterpoint...
AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were convicted Wednesday in federal court in the beating of a...
MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A rookie police officer was arguing with his partner over who should call their supervisor in the chaotic...
(USA Today) – A black man who died in police custody in Baltimore in April died of a “high-energy injury” that likely happened when the...
(USA Today) – A black man who died in police custody in Baltimore in April died of a “high-energy injury” that likely happened when the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday made it easier for inmates who are accused of crimes — but not yet convicted — to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday made it easier for inmates who are accused of crimes — but not yet convicted — to...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call LOS ANGELES (The Final Call) – An 11 woman, one man jury unanimously convicted LAPD...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Jordan Davis was born Feb 16, 1995. Contrary to his belief, he was not named after the basketball legend Michael...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Fox News blowhards will never admit that in covering the racially-charged swimming pool incident in McKinney, Texas, they blew it....
Al Baker, J. David Goodman, and Benjamin Mueller, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times) — Eric Garner was lumbering along a sidewalk...
Al Baker, J. David Goodman, and Benjamin Mueller, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times) — Eric Garner was lumbering along a sidewalk...
(Salon) – The McKinney, Tx. pool party incident, at which a cop pulled his weapon on unarmed, nonviolent teenagers and then shoved one face-first onto...