In Chicago, old habits die hard. In this week's episode of Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions, renowned attorneys Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside one of the worst police abuse...
Hundreds took to the streets of Philadelphia on Monday night, to protest the shooting by police of Walter Wallace, a 27-year-old Black man who officers said had a knife.
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Marcellis Stinnette (on left) is one of the latest victims of raical policing, as he was shot and killed while he sat in his car with girlfriend Tafara Williams (on right) who is now...
Washington, D.C.-based Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP)’s U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) issued a joint statement condemning...
The two anonymous members of the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case who spoke out this week about the deliberations had no agenda other than to pursue the truth, their lawyer told Yahoo News on...
Trump's America has exposed the deep roots of systemic racism--and the need for an anti-racism revolution.
The nation has less than two weeks left to live in its comfort zone of platitudes...
Another grand juror has released a statement regarding the Breonna Taylor investigation, agreeing with a fellow grand juror that the group was limited on what charges they could consider in the...
A Hennepin County judge has dropped a third-degree murder charge against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, but denied the defendant's motion to...
On Tuesday, the was a march from Kenosha to Milwaukee for Jacob Blake and to inspire voter participation.
A march from Kenosha to Milwaukee arrived at Red Arrow Park Tuesday afternoon....
The Leadership Conference Education Fund and the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) are launching Black Justice is Our Justice, a campaign to combat white supremacy by fighting anti-...
An anonymous grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case issued a statement Tuesday claiming that prosecutors did not present the panel with any charges other than wanton endangerment against one of...
Dayton Teenager Tyra Patterson Spent 23 Years in Prison for Murder After Falsely Confessing to Stealing a Necklace.
When Tyra Patterson was 19, she falsely confessed to stealing a...
Malcolm X. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Herman Hiller
[From The Archives]
The following essay is excerpted from Malcolm X’s presentation at the Oxford Union Debate on December 3, 1964....
Two US Park Police officers have been indicted in the fatal 2017 shooting of 25-year-old unarmed motorist Bijan Ghaisar in Fairfax County, Virginia, officials announced Thursday.
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