NEW YORK--It has been exactly one year since the U.S. Department of Justice promised to launch an investigation into the death of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed Bronx teen who was gunned down in his grandmother’s bathroom in February 2012 by NYPD Office ...
Posted Sunday, August 31st 2014 at 5:14PM
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AvaLynn, in photos taken by her mother after she was called to pick her child up at school following a reported playground incident. (Courtesy of the mother)
PASCAGOULA, Mississippi-- Many people are asking questions about what happened to litt ...
Posted Saturday, August 30th 2014 at 8:30PM
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I am doing the Ice Bucket Hack, Comic Style, to raise awareness around Police Brutality, Racism, & Racial Profiling here in America. I challenge everyone, all my Facebook friends & family, my Twitter, Instagram, & Tumblr following. Please join me in ...
Posted Saturday, August 30th 2014 at 1:05AM
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Cell phone footage of Minneapolis police tasing and arresting a Black man, Chris Lollie, for sitting in a skyway in January has gone viral on YouTube.
The clip shows Lollie walking with an inquiring officer in Downtown St. Paul’s First Nationa ...
Posted Friday, August 29th 2014 at 10:19PM
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From The New Orleans Tribune
August 28, 2014
In what was supposed to be the first year of full implementation, legal wrangling and fighting in Baton Rouge between the governor, state education superintendent and the BESE Board over the Common Cor ...
Posted Friday, August 29th 2014 at 5:48PM
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Police are scratching their heads trying to work out who donated a human skull to a thrift store in Austin, Texas.
Homicide Detective Derek Israel said Wednesday that foul play is not suspected and that he just wants to know how the adult skull ca ...
Posted Friday, August 29th 2014 at 11:13AM
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In a very interesting and surprising revelation by Buzzsaw, who poses the question, was James Brown murdered? The question lies in why there was no autopsy done on the late Godfather of Soul and the connection between his manager, who was by the ...
Posted Friday, August 29th 2014 at 10:56AM
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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most o ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 9:01PM
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NN) -- The recording sounds like something from Jim Crow days: a white supervisor threatening to hang an African-American employee for drinking water from a "white people" fountain.
But it's 2014, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Untonia Harris, who worked a ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 8:29PM
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