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BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — The latest on the scheduled execution of Missouri inmate Roderick Nunley, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 15-year-old girl in Kansas City in 1989 (all times local): 9:09 p.m. A man who spent nearly 25 years on Missouri’s death row has been executed for the kidnapping, rape […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina brothers were each awarded $750,000 on Wednesday, three decades after they were wrongfully convicted in the killing an 11-year-old girl. Henry McCollum, 51, appeared calm when the North Carolina Industrial Commission formally awarded him and his half-brother Leon Brown, 47, the money during a compensation hearing. Brown is […]
Roland Martin talks to New York Justice League member, Tamika Mallory about the conservative Republicans that have labeled the #BlackLivesMatter group as a hate group. “It’s impossible to shut the movement down because there are so any different organizations that make #BlackLivesMatter move. Folks are realizing that this movement is not going to end and it’s really […]
Jamie and Gladys Scott – the “Scott Sisters” – were incarcerated in Mississippi for 16 years for an armed robbery which, according to court testimony, yielded $11. They have consistently denied involvement in the crime, and although neither sister had a prior criminal record, they were each sentenced to serve double life. On December 29, […]
On Wednesday, hearings will begin to determine if the case against the six officers in the Freddie Gray case should be dismissed.
Hasselbeck and other naysayers continue to make attempts at undermining the BlackLivesMatter campaign by labeling it a violent hate group.
An Orange County teacher has filed a lawsuit against her former school claiming she was discriminated against for dating a Black man.
Dora Charles, a former assistant chef for beleaguered celebrity chef Paula Deen, spent over two decades working in an environment where she witnessed Deen’s much-publicized racism…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court says Shelby County, Alabama, cannot recover $2 million in attorney fees from the U.S. government in a case that nullified a key part of the Voting Rights Act. Shelby County had prevailed in the case when, in 2013, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to eliminate the Justice Department’s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists, black and white, marched outside the Minnesota State Fair this weekend, hoping to bring attention to the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police. Inside the fair, a booth also represented the group, with T-shirts bearing the slogans “Black Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter” […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Investigators say police officers who arrived at the wrong metro Atlanta home for a report of suspicious activity shot the man who lives there and “likely” shot one of their own, leaving him seriously wounded. Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials said DeKalb County police received a report of a suspicious person Monday […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A man charged with murder in the ambush of a suburban Houston sheriff’s deputy had a history of mental illness and was once declared mentally incompetent, according to authorities and his former attorney. Shannon J. Miles, 30, was being held without bond after an initial court hearing Monday. Prosecutors accuse him of […]
