Dnigma Howard is a 16-year-old Chicago student who was dragged down stairs, punched and Tased by school resource officers at Marshall High School. , they responded to a call in January after…
In 2011, a 25-year-old Dallas man was arrested for stealing two packages of diapers. According to the Dallas Morning News, Jorge Carbajal pleaded with officers to let him go, saying “I was…
A video of Columbia University senior Alexander McNab recently went viral, in which campus police are seen pinning him to a counter. What allegedly drew police to target McNab, who is black,…
Attorney General William Barr recently unveiled that he had formed a legal team to investigate the FBI’s actions leading up to the Trump-Russia probe. This comes on the heels of Senator Lindsey…
We can now add “being a lawyer” to our long list of ordinary things black people are stopped by law enforcement for. Rashad James is an attorney with Maryland Legal Aid, despite…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), who is also running for president in 2020, continues to introduce ambitious policy proposals. Her latest: Jailing corporate CEOs. On Wednesday, Elizabeth Warren introduced her “Corporate Executive Accountability…
In March, a federal grand jury handed down a round of indictments that were unsealed Tuesday in a corruption investigation involving donations to the North Carolina Republican Party. The state party’s chairman…
Since 1996, the nationwide juvenile arrest rate has been in steady decline according to Department of Justice statistics. California largely followed national trends, but in the last years of the 20th century,…
Facebook, which last year let ads on its platform , is now treating white nationalist and white separatist content as white supremacy in a new policy being implemented next week. “It’s definitely…
Empire actor Jussie Smollett is no longer facing 16 criminal charges after Chicago prosecutors suddenly dropped the case on Tuesday. CBS Chicago is reporting that the judge in the case has also…