Crime

Savannah, Ga., clergy demand mayor’s resignation, dash cam video in police killing of Black man 

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Emmett Till’s house, other historical Black sites to get preservation funds

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Grandma, 70, takes lifeguard job to get kids in the pool, off the streets where 100 have been shot  

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Family pleads for safe return of missing Ole Miss student Jimmie “Jay” Lee

Jimmie "Jay" Lee, 20, was last seen leaving an apartment complex in Oxford, Mississippi on Friday, July 8, at about…
/ July 18, 2022

Gunman, facing hate crime charges punishable by death, pleads not guilty to killing 10 in Buffalo

The gunman charged with killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket pleaded not guilty Monday to federal hate crime…
/ July 18, 2022

Robots became racist after AI training, always chose Black faces as ‘criminals’

Scientists have confirmed that robots trained with artificial intelligence software perpetuates harmful racist stereotypes.
/ July 18, 2022

Seven years after Charleston massacre, racial equity group starts work with optimism, suspicion 

Nearly a decade after nine people were slain in a historic Black church, a new commission pushes for racial equity…
/ July 18, 2022

US Atty, DOJ investigating workplace treatment of Black troopers in Maryland 

A pattern-or-practice probe opened by the Justice Department and Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office was announced on Friday.
/ July 18, 2022

Murder conviction overturned after Black jurors excluded

The jury, which had no Black members, found Darian L. McWoods guilty of murder by abuse in the death of…
/ July 17, 2022
Man sentenced for racist email

Upstate New York police officer arrests on-duty ambulance worker who allegedly bumped his squad car

A Rochester police officer has been assigned administrative duties after he handcuffed an ambulance worker while she assisted a patient.
/ July 17, 2022

Boxing champion belt given to Mandela stolen in South Africa

Police say the World Boxing Council championship owned by former South African President Nelson Mandela was stolen July 1.
/ July 16, 2022

Man wrongly convicted of murdering Malcolm X sues NYC for $40M 

Lawyers for Muhammad Aziz, who spent two decades in prison for Malcolm X's 1965 murder, filed a civil rights lawsuit…
/ July 15, 2022

D.A. forced to drop about 40 criminal cases over misconduct by investigating officers 

Contra Costa County, California, prosecutors admitted that the cases were "compromised to the point they cannot be salvaged."
/ July 15, 2022

Three accused of placing papers with hate symbols at Black church, other locations 

Each suspect faces over 100 charges of aggravated harassment for dispensing the pamphlets at various sites in Hornell, New York.
/ July 15, 2022

Brittney Griner’s lawyer gave Russian court her doctor’s letter recommending cannabis for pain

A lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner gave a Russian court a U.S. doctor's letter recommending she use medical cannabis…
/ July 15, 2022