The facts surrounding Rumain Brisbon's death — the ones that could be agreed upon as of Wednesday evening — follow a narrative familiar to a nation still reeling from the in Ferguson, Mo., New York
A grand jury in Staten Island has decided not indict New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in relation to the death of Eric Garner, a man that Pantaleo was seen on video putting in an apparent
Police tactics in Ferguson are again under the spotlight after a pregnant woman lost her left eye when an officer shot a bean bag round at the window of the car in which she was sitting, blasting
The Jacksonville mother who fired a gun toward her husband is back in jail. Marissa Alexander pleaded guilty Monday to three felony counts of assault. Bruce Zimet, her attorney, said, "Ultimately,
The Salt Lake branch of the NAACP is calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct an independent investigation into the . The announcement comes one week after . Investigators say they
by Gabrielle Union as as told to Abigail Pesta for Cosmopolitan A day after I got married this past August, rumors spread on the Internet that my name was on a list of more than 100 women whose
On Saturday, August 9th, Michael Brown was murdered in cold blood by the police in his town of Ferguson, MO. This is what happened. Whether you believe that he stole something or that he tried to
If it didn’t happen to African girls, would it be the world’s biggest story? Two-hundred and thirty four teenage girls were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in the northeastern
Ever since European haphazard “discovery” of the Americas, violence has been an integral part in the construction of identity in colonial lands. Indigenous and African peoples enslaved,
Often at times the discourse of black folk is reduced to narratives of Black Men; likewise the discourse of women is reduced to a narrative of white women. In both cases, the voice and