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ST. LOUIS (AP) — An attorney for the family of a black 18-year-old shot and killed last October by an off-duty, white St. Louis police officer said Tuesday he plans to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, after a prosecutor said the officer would not face criminal charges. In a 51-page report released Monday, St. Louis Circuit […]
Jacque Reid talks to Derrica and Natalie Wilson of Black and Missing Foundation about the disproportionate amount of women and children that go missing. “Our number of our children are going missing because of sex trafficking. Atlanta ranks number one in sex trafficking. Domestic violence also plays a role.” Click the link above to […]
A Duke University professor has some ideas about why Baltimore exploded a few weeks back. He says basically – this is my assessment- that blacks aren’t assimilating properly or fast enough and are being blindly lead by liberal policies that make whites rich and blacks poor. Professor Jerry Hough was responding to a May […]
Duke University Professor Jerry Hough is on leave after his racially-charged comments on a news website comment section went viral. My Fox 8 reports: In the recent post, he made references to “the blacks” and “the Asians” in response to an editorial about racism and the Baltimore riots. Hough is listed as a political science professor on […]
A rash of gun violence exploded in Chicago over the weekend, leaving one person dead and 40 others injured. In this recent spate of shootings…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A few miles off in any direction, and the debate about the knife involved in Freddie Gray‘s arrest by Baltimore police may have been completely different. The state of Maryland has one set of laws governing knives. The city of Baltimore has its own rules. Caught in the middle are people like […]
Do you remember Shanesha Taylor? The mom whose teary-eyed mug shot went viral last summer after it became national news that she left two of…
A recent Tampa Bay Times expose revealed that Tampa police write more bike tickets than the combined cities surrounding it combined. Those tickets are for things…
An incoming Boston University professor has apologized for her controversial remarks regarding White males on Twitter, Fox News reports. Saida Grundy, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and…
A young woman from Chicago has conquered the challenge of earning a master’s degree, and now she’s going for her doctorate. You might want to…
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Alumni of a school named for a slave who later became a South Carolina congressman say the school’s logo is offensive. The school is named after Robert Smalls, a slave who escaped and later captured a Confederate ship during the Civil War. He went on to serve five terms in Congress. […]
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A perjury charge was dropped Friday against the fiancee of former New England Patriots star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez. Shayanna Jenkins had pleaded not guilty to perjury. Prosecutors had said she lied dozens of times to the grand jury that investigated the death of Odin Lloyd, who was dating […]
