WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is likely to expand the definition of racial profiling to bar federal agents from considering religion, national origin, gender and sexual orientation in their investigations, a person familiar with the issue said Thursday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity about the matter because a Justice Department review of […]
When Houston police spotted Landry Thompson (pictured left), a 13-year-old Tulsa, Okla., dancer in the company of two Black men, Josiah Kelly (pictured right), 22, her dance…
Three Black students waiting for a school bus in Rochester, New York were arrested after they refused police orders to “disperse,” reports Raw Story. On…
NEW YORK (AP) — Barneys New York says it will start monitoring the police as they monitor shoppers in its flagship Manhattan store. An internal Barneys memo sent to store security staff Tuesday said Barneys would start keeping a log of which police officers use its security room. The memo obtained by The Associated Press […]
11/25/13- Roland Martin talks with Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown, about Earl Simmons, a 28-year-old man who has been stopped by the Miami Gardens police 258 times, searched more than 100 times, arrested for trespassing 62 times, and jailed 56 times. Read more here.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jay Z announced Friday he’ll move forward with a planned collaboration with Barneys New York despite recent allegations of racial profiling at the luxury store, an ongoing investigation into the claims and public pressure that he back out of the deal. In a statement on his website, Jay Z said he’d […]
Actor Rob Brown is seeking justice for allegedly being racially profiled in Macy’s. He recently filed a lawsuit against the department store giant. Although the…
Only 1.5 percent of Stop-and-Frisk arrests, the discriminatory policy that racially profiles Black and Brown men on the streets of New York City, has resulted…
Only 1.5 percent of Stop-and-Frisk arrests, the discriminatory policy that racially profiles Black and Brown men on the streets of New York City, has resulted…
May the good Lord, His angels and the blessed saints preserve me: I’m a Nazi. Why else would I be happy that New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly got run off of Brown University’s campus back on Oct. 29? But I’m not just happy; I’m downright GIDDY. Here’s what happened: Kelly was invited to […]
TMZ is reporting that “Treme” star Robert Brown has filed a lawsuit against Macy’s in New York for racial profiling. As previously reported, the actor says he bought his mom a $1,300 Movado watch as a graduation present in June at Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square. Brown says after his purchase, he went on […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Front-running mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio faces political and legal dilemmas now that a judge’s ruling critical of the police department’s stop-and-frisk tactic has been blocked. The federal judge’s summertime rebuke of the department’s stop-and-frisk policy as discriminatory to blacks and Hispanics was a ringing affirmation of one of de Blasio’s […]
