Baton Rouge, La., Police Officer Sues DeRay Mckesson for Protest Injury
A Baton Rouge, La., police officer who says that he was injured during a protest of a deadly police shooting filed a lawsuit against prominent activist and Campaign Zero co-founder DeRay Mckesson on...
View ArticleFather of Slain Dallas Police Officer Is Suing Black Lives Matter for...
The father of one of the Dallas police officers who were killed back in July is reportedly suing Black Lives Matter and other groups, claiming that organizers incited a “war on police” that resulted in...
View Article#WeOutOrNah? The Internal Conflict of a Conscious Black Person Postelection
“Ohio. North Carolina. Florida. My God. This is really happening.” As last night’s results rolled in, I was hunkered down in a war room with colleagues. Together we watched our greatest fear, and that...
View ArticleBrother of Man Shot by Off-Duty Officer in Chicago Released on Bond
Michael Beal, 28, brother of the late Joshua Beal, who was shot and killed Saturday by an off-duty Chicago police officer, was released from custody Thursday after an anonymous donor paid the $50,000...
View ArticleNYC Protester Arrested After Allegedly Pushing Elderly Trump Supporter
Shacara McLaurin, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y., got into a shouting match with an elderly Donald Trump supporter Thursday that resulted in her allegedly pushing the senior citizen to the ground and getting...
View ArticleBlack Professors Speak Out After Trump Victory About the Routine Racism of...
Editor’s note: Once a month, this column will tackle broader questions about what the country should do about gaps in achievement and opportunity. “You don’t pray for an easy road; you pray for a...
View ArticleStudents Expelled From Abilene Christian University for Posting Snapchat...
It seems as if some white college students still haven’t learned that blackface isn’t OK. This time around, a video of an unidentified female student from Abilene Christian University in Texas wearing...
View ArticleOfficial Autopsy Report Confirms Keith Lamont Scott Was Shot 3 Times by...
The official autopsy report for Keith Lamont Scott, the black man who was killed by Charlotte, N.C., police in September, confirms that he was shot three times, WCNC-TV reports. According to the...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter Issues Official Statement on Donald Trump’s Election
The national leaders of Black Lives Matter Global Network said on Tuesday that their mandate remains unchanged in the wake of “the election of a white supremacist to the highest office in American...
View ArticleMinn. Officer Who Fatally Shot Philando Castile Charged With Manslaughter
The St. Anthony, Minn., police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile earlier this year during a traffic stop will be facing manslaughter charges, NPR reports. According to the report, Rasmey...
View ArticleSymone Sanders: ‘Black Women Have Been Holding Up the Mantle for America...
Symone Sanders is a force to be reckoned with, which is why she was named to The Root 100, our annual list of the most influential African Americans ages 25-45. The 26-year-old was formerly the...
View Article2 Cops Kill 21-Year-Old Man in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Another young person of color is dead after being shot by two New York City police officers on Saturday. The New York Daily News reports that two NYPD officers shot 21-year-old Erickson Gomez Brito...
View ArticleCincinnati Prosecutor to Retry Former Officer in Sam Dubose Shooting Death
Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Deters announced Tuesday that he will retry former Police Officer Ray Tensing in the fatal shooting of Sam Dubose, a black man, during a traffic stop last...
View ArticleBaton Rouge Settles Lawsuit with BLM Protesters for $100,000
Black Lives Matter protesters who were arrested in July while demonstrating after the shooting death of Alton Sterling will receive a monetary settlement from the city of Baton Rouge, La. As part of...
View ArticleAnother Black Chicago Teen Shot & Killed By Police, No Gun Recovered
Yet another Chicago police officer has shot and killed a 19-year-old black teen he says twice pointed a gun at him, but so far, no weapon has been found. Nineteen-year-old Kajuan Raye was described as...
View ArticleVeteran Denied Chili’s Discount Moves Out of Home Because of Threats
Ernest Walker has moved his family out of their Ovilla, Texas, home because of racially charged threats he’s reportedly received, according to WFAA-TV. This is reportedly not the first time the U.S....
View ArticleJury Deadlocks in Trial of Officer Who Killed #WalterScott
The jury in the trial of Michael Slager, the police officer who shot and killed Walter Scott, says it’s deadlocked after three days of deliberation, according to Reuters. In 2015, Slager pulled Scott...
View Article#WalterScott: Prosecutor Insists, ‘We Will Try Michael Slager Again’
In a statement released Monday afternoon, Charleston County, S.C., prosecutor Scarlett A. Wilson said that she will retry former South Carolina Police Officer Michael Slager, 35, for the murder of...
View ArticleLa. Sheriff Seems Real Happy to Say ‘Nigga’ in Public
I am going to need these white men in positions of power to grow up. I’m going to need them to stop acting like teenagers whose feelings get hurt on Twitter. I’m going to need them to log off and do...
View ArticleMich. Firefighter Fired for Racist Facebook Comments
A Belding, Mich., firefighter has been fired after allegedly posting racist remarks to Facebook over the weekend, Fox 17 reports. According to the report, the incident started when Ryan Hudson got into...
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