racial profiling

A 73-year-old Tulsa, Oklahoma reserve deputy who killed a man earlier this month when he fired a gun instead of a Taser was the subject…

  Taraji P. Henson has apologized to a California police department for claims she made an officer racially profiled her son. The Empire scene stealer made…

  Taraji P. Henson has apologized to a California police department for claims she made an officer racially profiled her son. The Empire scene stealer made…

Three African American women are taking legal action against the NYPD for falsely accusing them of stealing a credit card and placing them in jail.…

SEATTLE (AP) — Felix Vargas read the Justice Department’s report on Ferguson, Missouri, and thought some of it sounded awfully familiar: a mostly white police department overseeing a mostly minority town; questionable uses of force; officers ill-equipped to deal with mentally ill residents. They’re the same issues his heavily Hispanic community, the agricultural Washington city […]

Days after Anthony Mackie made eyebrow-raising comments regarding the Oscar snub of “Selma” in the major acting and directing categories, he’s really catching major heat for his take on the topic of police violence against young black men in that same interview. And although the actor didn’t mention the name of the website he gave […]

Yesterday, it was announced that the Department of Public Safety in Oklahoma created a law that would ban hoodies, and masks from being worn in public when…

Yesterday, it was announced that the Department of Public Safety in Oklahoma created a law that would ban hoodies, and masks from being worn in public when…

Leigh Anne Tuohy, the woman Sandra Bullock played in “The Blind Side,” where Tuohy and her husband adopted NFL tackle Michael Oher when he was…

The Department of Justice has announced a new set of  rules to help curb racial profiling by federal law enforcement officials. These guidelines instruct federal law…

The police officers involved in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice have been identified. The Associated Press reports that Cleveland police revealed that 26-year-old Timothy Loehmann, who was appointed to the force this year, was the officer who fired on Rice. The other officer named was 46-year-old Frank Garmback, who has been with the […]

  A former supporter of George Zimmerman (pictured) said Wednesday that he wanted to make amends with Trayvon Martin’s family by testifying before a federal grand…