Jonathan Ferrell

Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – The song’s themes resonated with poor, black and Latino communities who often are victims of crime, but are not properly served by emergency responders when they are in need…
/ April 23, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO Q&A – With ‘Afraid of Dark’, documentary filmmaker Mya B. says she hopes to make real the lives of everyday black men onscreen in hopes it could, ‘make them harder to kill’…
/ March 21, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Charlotte police officer for voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed former Florida A&M football player…
/ January 28, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
NBC News – A North Carolina grand jury declined Tuesday to indict a Charlotte police officer who killed an unarmed man by shooting him 10 times last year…
/ January 23, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The family of an unarmed North Carolina man killed by 10 police bullets after he crashed his car and staggered to a nearby house for help has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit…
/ January 14, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
Even with the prevalence of such high-profile cases, there is still surprisingly very little official data available regarding the number of people killed by police every year, or how often officers use excessive force.
/ November 27, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – Despite the rhetoric of a post-racial nation, the deaths of Jonathan Ferrell and Renisha McBride suggest that it is still not entirely safe for black people to even ask for help in an emergency…
/ November 13, 2013