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HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — Texas authorities on Monday released a three-hour video taken from outside a jail cell where an Illinois woman arrested during a traffic stop was found dead. The video from a motion-operated camera shows there was no activity for 90 minutes in the hallway leading to the cell where authorities say 28-year-old […]

Rachel Dolezal still swears she is a Black woman. Before the Charleston church shooting pushed her abruptly out of the news cycle, the former NAACP chapter president – who considers herself Black despite being outed by her parents as white –  had the country as close as it would come to that elusive national conversation on race. Now […]

Authorities in Alabama claim a teen committed suicide in a jail cell an hour after being arrested, another suspicious case of a Black woman dying…

Jury selection has begun in the trial of Charlotte police officer Randall Kerrick. Kerrick was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of ex-FAMU…

Dr. George Cooper died over the weekend. WISTV reports: Cooper was the 10th president of the historically black university in Orangeburg from 2008-2012. According to The White House, Cooper served as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In a statement released by the White House, President Barack Obama expressed his condolences […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston church has been ordered to provide handwriting samples to investigators. Circuit Judge J.C. Nicholson on Friday directed 21-year-old Dylann Roof to provide the samples. Following Roof’s arrest the day after the June 17 shootings, several search warrants were executed […]

  Sandra Bland was on her way to a new job at her alma mater Prairie View A&M when she was arrested during a routine traffic stop for changing lanes without signaling. Two days later, while still in police custody, she was found dead, reportedly from hanging herself. The family and an outraged public have […]

DETROIT (AP) — Police in Detroit are searching for men who allegedly robbed two young couples at gunpoint in separate attacks two hours apart and gang-raped the women while forcing the male victims to watch. The attacks happened Thursday night along a major street on Detroit’s northwest side, police said. In each case, the couples […]

STONEWALL, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday night at a baseball park in a small Mississippi town to remember a black man who died after a physical encounter with a white police officer and to call for action. The crowd repeatedly shouted “No justice, no peace!” Lawrence Kirskey, president of the Clark County […]

Sandra Barnett, 49, wife of former NFL player Buster Barnett, was shot and killed Wednesday by a woman friends say was her husband’s mistress, before…

More evidence surrounding the tragic case of Sandra Bland continues to surface. The police officer who took Bland into custody was  reportedly fired from his previous…

In a surprising move, Sandra Bland’s family has asked social media to stop posting about the death of their sister. The request was made via Sigma Gamma Rho’s website, a Divine 9 sorority founded in 1922 on the campus of Butler University in Indiana, a predominantly White institution. The organization posted this message from the […]