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July 5, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — The state's attorney general office was investigating an off-duty police officer's fatal shooting of a man…
July 2, 2016
Just when we thought the idea of trading Stacey Dash in an imaginary racial draft couldn't possibly come up again…
June 27, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost eight years after electing a black president, vast majorities of blacks and Hispanics think President Barack
June 24, 2016
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A former suburban Dallas police officer who resigned after video showed him forcing a bikini-clad black…
June 23, 2016
BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge acquitted a police van driver of all charges including "depraved-heart" murder on Thursday in the…
June 1, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota's U.S. attorney on Wednesday declined to file civil rights charges against two Minneapolis police officers in…
May 30, 2016
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The University of Maryland's president says campus officers' use of pepper spray while breaking up…
May 23, 2016
James Baldwin was right: "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in…
May 23, 2016
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore officer was acquitted Monday of assault and other charges in the arrest of Freddie Gray,…
May 19, 2016
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer whom the department was trying to fire after he fatally shot an unarmed…
May 11, 2016
On Tuesday, the 16 African-American cadets who stirred controversy when they took a photo together with raised fists were cleared
May 9, 2016
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- The embattled police force in Ferguson officially has a new chief...
May 8, 2016
No amount of education, documentaries, op-ed pieces, or books about the history of the symbol or what it means to…
May 6, 2016
SUNY Albany students Ariel Agudio, Asha Burwell and Alexis Briggs, all of whom are 20 years old, faced serious consequences…
May 5, 2016
A group of 16 black female cadets is being investigated by West Point officials after a picture circulated of the
April 29, 2016
Sandra Bland's mother Geneva Reed-Veal delivered a emotionally powerful speech to Congressional leaders Thursday.
April 29, 2016
Alvin Colvin's younger brother was shot in the leg by a police officer when he was carrying a toy gun,…
April 28, 2016
Students at Wesley College are upset after a series of racially charged cartoons were published in the student newspaper. The
April 27, 2016
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson only won 3,008 votes, for just 2.5% of the vote, in the primary vote
April 26, 2016
CLEVELAND (AP) — The head of a Cleveland police union says the family of a 12-year-old black boy shot dead…