police brutality

Last week ABC’s “Scandal,” starring Kerry Washington struck a nerve all across the country. It did so not with a new outrageous plot twist or…

Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” Straight Talk panel looked at three instances of police misconduct involving African Americans. First off, military vet William Wingate was…

An Arizona State University Police Officer has been granted a reprieve from being fired for throwing an African American professor to the ground after stopping her for…

Despite two recent decisions by grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island not to indict White police officers in the killings of two unarmed Black…

On Wednesday, a group of nine African American women, called the Delegation of Grieving Mothers, went before the House Judiciary committee to discuss how it felt to…

Seattle, Washington police officer Adley Shepherd will not face any criminal charges for punching Miyekko Durden-Bosley and breaking her eye’s orbital bone while she was handcuffed, according to…

I had no earthly desire to leave my home Wednesday after hearing that once again, another grand jury let another white police officer get away with…

UPDATED, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 8:35 p.m. E.T.: The live stream has concluded. During the presser, Rev. Al Sharpton announced a national march in  Washington, D.C. on Saturday,…

Georgia jails are brimming over with inmates and part of that seems to be because the Atlanta Police Department reportedly insists on arresting civilians for jaywalking. In fact, according to…

The city of Charlotte, North Carolina has stopped paying the  civil defense legal fees of Randall ‘Wes’ Kerrick, 28, the police officer charged with voluntary…

No matter who or what you are, you are likely to occasionally fall victim to looking at the world through a very specific lens. Such…

Another case of police brutality is being reported in Hammond, IN. Jamal Jones was a passenger in his girlfriend’s car when Hammond police stopped the…