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ST. LOUIS (AP) — In the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death, legal activists suggested that some of the raw anger that erupted in suburban St. Louis had its roots in an unlikely place — traffic court. It was there, they said, that low-income drivers sometimes saw their lives upended by minor infractions that led to […]
In July, we reported on the rape of 16-year-old Jada, who had been drugged and sexually assaulted at a party. After violating her body, her rapists…
You have got to see this… There’s a YouTube channel called “Honestly Speaking,” where a Black woman has uploads videos of herself ranting over several…
Last June, Utah father Sammie Hodges (pictured) was arrested and charged with four counts of child abuse for shackling his 7-year-old son to a bed frame while…
Marquis Moore (pictured) went to Zembie’s Sports Tavern in Harrisburg, Pa. to chow down on some wings and watch the game, so imagine his surprise…
Lennon Lacy is a Bladenboro, North Carolina teen who was found hanged from the frame of a swing set in the middle of a mobile…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge has overturned the murder conviction of a 14-year-old black boy who was executed in 1944 in the deaths of two white girls in segregated South Carolina. Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen ruled the state did a great injustice when it put George Stinney in the electric chair less than two […]
Every day, a new story of the the police and their differing treatment of Black and white people. Case in point: The NYPD is searching for six protesters in involved in a violent fight with police on the Brooklyn Bridge. In one of the videos from what was otherwise a peaceful protest, a cop is […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she’s proud to have been part of an administration that “banned illegal renditions and brutal interrogations” and said the U.S. should never be involved in torture anywhere in the world. Clinton spoke about the importance of the nation acting in accordance with its values after receiving […]
When Ted Gustus was a boy, he found his mother dead, lying on the floor of their railroad flat in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant. In the background,…
As many throughout the nation continue rise up to let their voices be heard against social injustices and the tyranny of abusive police-action, protestors in Desoto County, Mississippi were…
Amy Elizabeth Barnes (pictured), a white grassroots activist from Marietta, Georgia, won $100,000 in a federal case against Cobb County. She was placed behind bars…
