After being pardoned in 2017 for a robbery he didn't commit, wrongfully convicted Chicago resident Keith Cooper has now reached a whopping $7.5 million settlement in Elkhart, Indiana that highlights the bigger problem of misconduct within the city's police department.Â
A Detroit bank has apologized to a man who attempted to cash a settlement check he’d received in a racial discrimination lawsuit. But it may be too late, as he’s already filing suit against that bank, and may soon have another check to cash. Sauntore Thomas, 44, had three checks to deposit and cash at […]
New York City will pay a Black mother over $600k after her 18-month-old son was forcefully pulled from her arms by officers during an incident at Brooklynâs Human Resources Administration office last year. Jazmine Headley, 23, was reportedly visiting office to apply for daycare vouchers so that she could begin working as a security guard. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) â Newly-released statistics show taxpayers paid more than $342,000 to settle workplace discrimination disputes at House lawmakers’ offices between 2008 and 2012, including nearly $175,000 for eight settlements related to sexual harassment and sex discrimination accusations. The new numbers were released Tuesday by the House Office of Compliance, the taxpayer-funded office that handles […]
The Los Angeles City Council reached a settlement in the death of Wakiesha Wilson.
Blacks oppressed by white and violent hate groups across the Deep South saw reason to celebrate on this day in 1988. The Ku Klux Klan and the Southern White Knights of Forsyth County, Ga. were ordered to pay nearly $1 million to its Black victims. On January 17, 1987, around 55 marchers gathered in […]
Chris Rock‘s ex wife Malaak doesn’t care if the 7-year-old girl who lived with their family isn’t his biological daughter, she wants the legendary comic to pay up. We previously reported that African officials launched an international investigation to find out how little Ntombi ended up living in the Rock household when she was never […]
Johnneisha Kemper was a teenage mother six years ago. After a dispute with her birth mother that left her newborn daughter locked inside her mother’s home, Kemper called police. Instead of helping her and despite the lack of imminent danger to the child, a requirement in protective custody cases, her child was taken. Six years […]
