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BOSTON (AP) — Minority students at three prestigious law schools say they want to delay final exams because they’ve been busy protesting grand jury decisions in the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri, and haven’t had time to study. Student groups at […]

In a TEDx Talk, CNN correspondent and anchor Don Lemon talks about covering the events in Ferguson, Missouri, which he says more than anything else, is about a community that wants to be heard and respected.  Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

Lakaisha Reid (pictured) is fit to be tied. The mom of six-year-old Patrick (pictured) is upset that her special needs child was allegedly handcuffed by a…

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Video of an Arizona police officer aggressively subduing a teenage girl Friday quickly went viral, reaching over 2.4 million views, ABC 15 reports. RELATED: Grand Jury…

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Podcast: Download There are over two dozen major cities in America that will have mayoral elections in 2015. Three states will have gubernatorial elections and…

Earlier this year, 19-year-old aspiring model Gabriella Montgomery shared the graphic photos above following a horrific domestic violence incident with her ex-boyfriend. Gabriella took to Instagram last…

20-year-old Ferguson activist Rasheen Aldridge Jr. was invited to the White House by President Obama, along with a few other young activists from Ferguson Commission–a…

Keeping the great news coming today because we need it! Since 2007, Andre Johnson, wide receiver for the Houston Texans, has made it a tradition to…

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STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — Thieves have given students in metro Atlanta a new excuse for missing class: The battery was stolen from my school bus. Dekalb County Schools police say a total of 90 batteries have been stolen from the school buses since October. WSB-TV reports that some students at Stone Mountain Middle School […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — A jail guard accused of skipping her rounds and falsifying a logbook to cover it up was charged Monday in connection with the death of a mentally ill inmate in his stifling 101-degree cell. Carol Lackner faces multiple counts of falsifying business records, filing a false instrument and official misconduct charges […]

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal autopsy in the Ferguson police shooting reached similar conclusions to those performed by local officials and a private examiner hired by 18-year- old Michael Brown’s family, documents released Monday evening show. The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System’s autopsy on Brown, conducted at the request of the Department of Justice, […]

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The mother of a 12-year-old boy shot dead last month by Cleveland police after he was seen holding a toy gun said today the most agonizing moment was when she had to decide whether to go with her injured son to the hospital or stay at the recreation center playground to figure out why her […]