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A docuseries inspired by ‘The 1619 Project’ is coming to Hulu.

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Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has launched a new initiative focused on amplifying stories about police brutality.

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Track & field legends John Carlos and Tommie Smith will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.

The police killed young Black men at a disproportionately high rate in 2016. It could escalate under Trump

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John Felton, an African-American man from Detroit, was pulled over by an Ohio police officer for making “direct eye contact” with him.

An amended lawsuit has been filed against a Pennsylvania prison and its medical personnel for refusing Hepatitis C treatment to political prisoner and former Black Panther Party member, Mumia Abu-Jamal. According to Think Progress, the amended suit was filed on Tuesday just days after it was confirmed the 61-year-old had the disease. Abu-Jamal was initially […]

Arrested at 17, Carlos Montero has been in Riker’s Island for 7 years without being convicted http://t.co/aMP8eaWNs0 via @dailykos — JoeInWV (@wvjoe911) June 16, 2015 A 24-year-old Manhattan man has spent nearly seven years in New York City’s Rikers Island jail awaiting trial, a jaw-dropping record for pretrial incarceration that is unlikely to end soon, […]

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Dr. Artemisia Stanberry is a woman on a mission. SEE ALSO: Why We Need To Listen To Tavis, Cornel On Poverty Her cousin, Rodney K. Stanberry (pictured), began serving a prison sentence in 1997 for crimes that extensive evidence indicates that he did not commit, and she will not stop until justice prevails. In 1992, […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The fiancee of an unarmed black man fatally shot by a Bay Area transit police officer last year testified Monday that her boyfriend told her he was being beaten by officers moments before he was killed.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – About 180 county employees in suburban Atlanta are being asked to return thousands of dollars the county says they were overpaid 16 years ago.

From HuffingtonPost.com: Florida urologist Jack Cassell posted a sign on his office door reading, “If you voted for Obama … seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your health care begin right now, not in four years.”

From Philly.com: Two years ago, eight Philadelphia police officers drew national scrutiny when a news helicopter caught them kicking and beating three murder suspects.