Childs' family believes she was targeted. Childs was home alone when the shooting occurred. Her body was discovered by her boyfriend when he returned home, KTRK reports.

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Nearly a year after Carey Gabay, a well-respected aide to Gov. Cuomo, was fatally shot while walking from a J’ouvert celebration in New York City’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn, police have arrested a fifth suspect in a California resort city two hours east of Los Angeles, according to the New York Daily News. Kenny Bazile was arrested Thursday […]

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August 2016 was Chicago’s deadliest month in nearly two decades, leaving the city’s streets riddled with shell casings and bloodshed from mostly African-American bodies.  According to the Chicago Police Department’s crime statistics, an astonishing 474 people were victims of homicide in 2016. In August alone, there were 92 deaths, a number slightly lower than July 1993 […]

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Singer Janelle Monáe took to Twitter on Wednesday evening to mourn the loss of her thirty-seven-year-old cousin, Natasha Hays.

A boy, 10, was nearly killed in Chicago's deadliest day of gun violence in 13 years. Nineteen people were shot.

A killer targeting victims of color remains on the loose, terrifying a small suburban neighborhood outside of Phoenix, Arizona.

John Silvanus Wilson Jr, President of Morehouse College and Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, President of Spelman College talk to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the first ever HBCU National Symposium on gun violence. “The student movement was born on the campuses of the AUC. The students there translated their intellectual capital into action that changed the city of […]

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The teen, whose name has not been released, has been charged as a juvenile and was being questioned Saturday by investigators in connection with the deaths.

Sixty people in total were shot over the weekend and 28 were wounded between Sunday around noon and 3 a.m. Monday morning.

There are a lot of lists for a young Black woman to aspire to. The Dean’s list. The Best Dressed List. But most don’t end up where Shanika Minor is now – the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. In another dubious honor, Minor is the first fugitive from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to make the list. […]

Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies booked Marshall on voluntary manslaughter charges. He is currently being held on $100,000 bail, KTLA reports.