Last year Chikesia Clemons made headlines when her violent Waffle House arrest on April 22, 2018, went viral, after she visited the fast food chain with a group of friends in Saraland, Alabama. The incident escalated near the end of Clemons’ visit after she got into a heated argument with the restaurant chain, allegedly over plastic […]
Cedric Willis had every reason to live. In 1994, when he was 19, the Mississippi man was wrongfully convicted in a rape and murder case, though the witness couldn’t even agree on the details of the crime. Willis would ultimately spend 12 years in jail and like so many other wrongfully convicted men, he’d do some […]
Crystal Mason is in jail for voting. Here is how you can help.
NEW YORK (AP) — A weeklong power failure at a federal detention center in New York City spawned a humanitarian crisis that left inmates shivering in the dark and without access to visitors on some of the coldest days of the year, advocates said in a lawsuit filed Monday. The Federal Defenders of New York, […]
4/25/18-Philadelphia was lit yesterday as Meek Mill walked out of prison onto a helicopter. Huggy says they were so happy that it was like T’Challa returning to Wakanda. But he also reminds us that Mill represents a lot of young Black men caught up in the justice system. READ MORE STORIES ON BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM: GET THE […]
Nationwide, more than half of the jailed population accounts for people who can’t afford bail, according to the Vera Institute of Justice. Many who face nonviolent charges, but can’t afford bail, are disproportionately Black and Latino. It costs about $38 million a day to keep these largely nonviolent people behind bars, according to the Pretrial […]
This morning I want to tell you three painful stories of injustice. In each of them, police and prosecutors not only failed these young Black men, they conspired against them to destroy their lives – evidence of their innocence be damned. Thankfully, all three men survived to tell their story, but suffered immensely in the […]
The United States has approximately 2.3 million people in correctional facilities across the nation (Prison Policy Initiative) – more than any other country in the world. The first 90 days of being released are crucial for those who have been incarcerated – as they often face many challenges and few resources – and nearly 40% […]
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Three hung juries in the case of a white former Oklahoma police officer charged with fatally shooting his daughter’s black boyfriend had one thing in common besides unwillingness to convict: Each had only one African-American juror. Race has been an undercurrent in ex-Tulsa officer Shannon Kepler’s first-degree murder case, which is […]
Kalief Browder, the 22-year-old who was horrendously abused by police officers on Rikers Island as a teen, was facing new charges shortly before his suicide on…
It’s been 20 years since O.J. Simpson was acquitted for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown. Although people are still talking about the…
Al Jazeera hasn’t been in the American market that long, but they’ve already used their hard news reputation to shine a spotlight on injustices in the United States. One of the greatest is sentencing disparities – a story that is making headlines as courts around the country are working to right a longtime wrong in […]
