Under a proposed plan from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, Washington D.C. would release more footage from police body cameras than any other
It's been discovered that "I Have A Dream" debuted on November 17, 1962 in a segregated high school gym in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Police say a Texas man forced entry into his ex’s Houston home and shot and killed her, her husband, and the couple’s six children — including one boy who was his own son. David Ray Conley‘s former girlfriend, 40-year-old Valerie Jackson, was handcuffed to the bed along with her husband Dwayne Jackson, 50, before Conley took […]
According to Zimbabwe's environment minister, Oppah Muchinguri, the American hunter who killed Cecil the Lion should be extradited
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is donating $4.7 million to eight organizations in New Orleans and two coalitions in Mississippi devoted to uplifting young men and boys of color. The grants will ensure that men and boys of color are receiving better opportunities for advancement, and will also aid in closing racial disparities in each respective […]
President Barack Obama announced the final version of the Clean Power Plan on Sunday morning. The plan is projected to cost $8.4 billion and will most likely face some legal hurdles from various coal producers and states. In June, the President announced the proposal, which initially stated there would be less carbon pollution cuts done with less […]
Racial tensions arose on Saturday in Douglasville, Georgia, when a fleet of vehicles toting the Confederate flag approached a child’s birthday party. Two different bystanders captured the incident on cell phone, portraying two different accounts of what happened. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Melissa Alford — the woman who hosted the party — witnessed the individuals in the […]
Following the Sunday passing of Whitney Houston‘s 22-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, her longtime boyfriend Nick Gordon is reportedly on suicide watch. After Brown was found face down in the bathtub in her Atlanta home on Jan. 31, her family began to suspect foul play on Gordon’s part. Gordon, however, continues to deny any involvement in her death. According to […]
Black state trooper Leroy Smith was present in Columbia, S.C. when the Confederate rebel flag was removed from the state display to quell tensions between groups who both opposed and supported the change. While on the job, Smith was captured in a now-viral photograph helping an older White man wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with a Swastika get to some cool shelter […]
Los Angeles Police Department officer Mary O’Callaghan was sentenced to 36 months in prison on Thursday after being convicted of assault caught on her police cruiser dash cam, the Los Angeles Times reports. The 35-year-old victim, Alesia Thomas, died after the altercation, which began when officers went to Thomas’s home to investigate claims that she had abandoned her children, […]
Hillary Clinton may now be in more hot water over her email controversy. The Justice Department just received a referral to open a criminal investigation into whether Clinton mishandled government information when she used her private email account as Secretary of the State, NBC reports. Following the New York Times report, the emails under investigation were […]
On Sunday, Anthony Hervey, a 49-year-old Black man from Oxford, Mississippi known for supporting the state Confederate flag, was killed in a car accident. Hervey’s 2005 Ford Explorer turned over on Mississippi Highway 6 in Lafayette Country, resulting in his death, NBC reports. Officials are investigating the crash itself, but have not confirmed if they are taking a closer […]