A lawyer friend posed this thorny question yesterday: “How many Black men have been falsely accused of rape and spent have their lives in prison for crimes they didn’t commit?” I couldn’t answer his question with a hard number. I didn’t know. My friend really didn’t want a definitive response; his mind was already made […]
Arrested at 17, Carlos Montero has been in Riker’s Island for 7 years without being convicted http://t.co/aMP8eaWNs0 via @dailykos — JoeInWV (@wvjoe911) June 16, 2015…
Settlement reached in case of unarmed black woman killed by homeowner on his porch http://t.co/B8R3tl5p0F — Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) June 15, 2015 The family of…
For the three years Kalief Browder sat in New York’s Rikers Island, he probably wondered what the difference would have been if his family could…
#BREAKING: After 4decades of #solitary confinement, tonight a judge granted #AlbertWoodfox unconditional release! pic.twitter.com/jTpr1fZi6q — AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) June 8, 2015 A federal district court on…
The family of the unarmed man shot and killed by a New York Police Department officer as he walked in a Brooklyn housing-project staircase has…
Loretta Lynch will investigate the death of John Crawford III, 22, who was shot last summer as he held an air rifle inside a Walmart in…
Songstress Beyoncé has never shied away from showing political support. She even teamed up with First Lady Michelle Obama on her initiative to overcome obesity…
If you’ve wondered why TV host Nancy Grace is so passionate about the criminals she exposes on her self-titled HLN show, it’s because of what…
A rapper named G.A.G.E. has released a song entitled “I Am Mike Brown” in response to the shooting and the peaceful protest that turned violent in Ferguson, Missouri several days after the shooting. G.A.G.E. uses a snippet from the mother of Mike Brown’s early statements to the press, as well as a snippet from the […]
A father in Houston is going to jail for six months – even though he paid more child support than he owed, reports Click2Houston.com. Clifford…
04/02/14 – Rev. Al Sharpton declares today a great day! Listen to find out just how many people President Barack Obama got to sign up for…