DAVID WARREN, Associated Press TERRY WALLACE, Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A white police officer in suburban Dallas has resigned after he was recorded on...
DAVID WARREN, Associated Press TERRY WALLACE, Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A white police officer in suburban Dallas has resigned after he was recorded on...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — It didn’t take long for a grand jury in South Carolina to indict a white former city policeman...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Cleveland.com) – A group of community leaders, clergy and civil rights activists on Tuesday plan to announce they’ve filed affidavits seeking charges against two Cleveland...
Kevin Rector, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — More than a dozen civil and religious groups calling for police reform in Baltimore will...
Kevin Rector, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — More than a dozen civil and religious groups calling for police reform in Baltimore will...
Tasha Tsiaperas and Claire Z. Cardona, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS McKINNEY (The Dallas Morning News) — A call to police about unwelcome teenagers at a...
Jamil Smith, THE NEW REPUBLIC CLEVELAND (The New Republic) — Before last week, the last time I’d been home to Cleveland, Ohio was in December...
By Richard B. Muhammad and Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – Protests were largely peaceful, calls for calm were...
By Richard B. Muhammad and Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – Protests were largely peaceful, calls for calm were...
(Ebony) – “I sent two children to play that day and only one came back.” On November 22, 2014, Samaria Rice’s youngest daughter Tajai Rice, 15,...
(Ebony) – “I sent two children to play that day and only one came back.” On November 22, 2014, Samaria Rice’s youngest daughter Tajai Rice, 15,...
(The Atlantic) – The recent spate of highly publicized killings of black men by police officers has driven many people to wonder how common such...
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The investigation into the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy holding a pellet gun by a white Cleveland...
(Los Angeles Times) – Nearly 10 months after Ezell Ford was shot and killed by two Los Angeles police officers, his mother said the same questions...
(The Guardian) – An unarmed black 18-year-old accused of shoplifting was killed by a police officer in Virginia who had been barred from patrolling city streets for...
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News “Ten years for nothing.” “Dead for nothing.” These statements were the most common hashtags used on...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As cities across the country have mobilized massive street protests over police violence and misconduct, a...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As cities across the country have mobilized massive street protests over police violence and misconduct, a...
A new movie, second term for mayor and summer approaching has all eyes on Chicago’s politicians, police, people, and body count by Ashahed M. Muhammad Special...
Kimberly Kindy, plus reporting by Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins, Steven Rich, Keith L. Alexander and Wesley Lowery, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — In...
Kimberly Kindy, plus reporting by Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins, Steven Rich, Keith L. Alexander and Wesley Lowery, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — In...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When racist attitudes, either conscious or subconscious, are combined with the discretionary powers that law enforcement officers have, the result...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s getting to be difficult to recall a week when, thanks to public exposure of videos, or tweets, text...
CHICAGO (USA Today) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday sought to distance the Chicago Police Departmentfrom two ex-Chicago police officers who posed more than a decade ago for...