About Clarissa Hamlin

Members of a church in Sri Lankan were recently shocked during a Christmas Carol service on Dec. 11 when they received booklets with explicit lyrics from Tupac Shakur's "Hail Mary" rap song instead of words to the common Christian prayer of the same name.

Authorities arrested congregation member Andrew McClinton and charged him with one count of first-degree arson in the burning of a Black church that was also vandalized with the words "Vote Trump" in Mississippi on Nov. 1.

Several groups and a resident returned back to federal court Wednesday to push for an order requiring Michigan state and city officials to deliver bottled water to certain homes in Flint.

Bill Scott, the highest-ranking African American officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, will assume the top post at the San Francisco Police Department in January, which is months after the SF PD nixed its last police chief amid protests about police killings of Blacks.

Delta Air Lines has revised its policy for emergency inflight medical treatment after a flight attendant prevented a Black doctor from assisting a passenger in October.

A new study from Drexel University says that Black people are 2.8 and 1.7 times more likely to die during encounters with police than White people and Hispanics, respectively.

Lawyers for Daniel Green, the man convicted of killing Michael Jordan's dad, claim evidence of police misconduct could help clear their client.

The city of New Orleans announced a $13.3 million settlement stemming from several police brutality cases in the weeks before and after Hurricane Katrina.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette charged two former State of Michigan emergency managers and two ex-City of Flint executives as part of the Flint Water Crisis investigation.

Princeton University has pulled the men's swim and diving team for the rest of the season Thursday after discovering several messages that were "racist, vulgar and offensive."

The gap also has to do with African-American kids watching more "youth-targeted" networks.

“The White man is going to push," the Minister Louis Farrakhan said recently during a speech before the State of the Black World Conference in New Jersey. "He’s putting in place the very thing that will limit the freedom of others.”