by Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle CHARLESTON, S.C. – Leaders of local civil rights organizations had been taking a wait-and-see approach...
EXCLUSIVE: Witness who recorded the deadly police shooting of #WalterScott speaks out. @LesterHoltNBC reports: http://t.co/wzf03DIghR — NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) April 8, 2015 (The Washington Post)...
MITCH WEISS, Associated Press MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The white South Carolina police officer charged with murder for shooting an unarmed...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The law gives police officers latitude to use deadly force when they feel physically endangered, but there’s far less...
by Terry Shropshire Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World Many urbanites probably wonder why instances of police brutality and lethal force keep being...
Jamey Keaton and Philippe Sotto, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France (AP) — Some things have changed since riots swept across France’s troubled neighborhoods a decade ago....
By Charles D. Ellison Special to the NNPA from The Philadelphia Tribune (NNPA)—There are now five presidential battleground states in 2016 that could be heavily...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Ever since President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in 1997, we have heard calls for apologies from...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Ever since President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in 1997, we have heard calls for apologies from...
Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)— Six months after the fatal shooting of a black teenager by police in Ferguson, Mo., the Justice Department...
Samantha Masunaga, L.A. TIMES PASCO, Wash. (The Los Angeles Times)—Several hundred people marched through the streets of Pasco, Wash., on Saturday to protest the fatal...
by Khorri Atkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Three years after NYPD officer Richard Haste chased unarmed Black teen Ramarley Graham...
by Khorri Atkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Three years after NYPD officer Richard Haste chased unarmed Black teen Ramarley Graham...
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Criminal charges will be unsealed against a rookie police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a...
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Criminal charges will be unsealed against a rookie police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Blacks and Latinos are incarcerated at disproportionately higher rates in part because police target them...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I find it very unsettling to hear police officers discuss how they believe that BlackLivesMatter protesters and certain politicians,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I find it very unsettling to hear police officers discuss how they believe that BlackLivesMatter protesters and certain politicians,...
Justin Moyer and Nick Kirkpatrick, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Since an unarmed black teenager was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., on...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Patrick Lynch, do you remember Oscar Grant? And if you do, Mr. “leader” of the New York Police Department Union,...
Jonathan Allen, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters)—A New York judge is due to hear arguments on Monday whether to make public records of a grand jury...
Rebecca Macatee, E! ONLINE (EOnline.com)—Nicki Minaj isn’t one of the artists caught up in a racially fueled Twitter war at the moment, but that doesn’t...
Cory Shaffer, NORTHEAST OHIO MEDIA GROUP CLEVELAND, Ohio (Cleveland.com)—Tanisha Anderson died as a result of being physically restrained in a prone position by Cleveland police on Nov....
Nina Golgowski, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS DAYTON, Ohio (New York Daily News)—The police shooting death of an Ohio man after he picked up a BB...