mental illness
Heartbreaking video of former actress Maia Campbell has surfaced and gone viral. Campbell’s former “In The House” co-star LL Cool J posted a message on IG searching for her and offered to help. Campbell has struggled with bouts of mental illness and drug abuse in recent years. Watch below her response to LL Cool J. […]
Obama says the hacks brought attention to Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and issues within the Democratic National Committee.
A New York cop shot and killed a 66-year-old Black woman wielding a bat in the Bronx on Tuesday evening. Police say they will investigate why the officer used lethal force instead of his Taser.
The Alfred Olango shooting raises more questions about the nation's police. How should they respond to the mentally ill?
Fourteen-year-old Bresha Meadows took the life of her father in July. She is currently behind bars on charges of aggravated murder. But Bresha’s family is calling her a “hero,” who saved them all from the verbally and physically abusive Jonathan Meadows. Police allege Bresha shot her father as he slept in their Warren, Ohio home, using the same gun with which […]
The entire police department, which consists of 12,000 officers, will receive training centered on mental health awareness.
The Denver District Attorney declined to charge the police officers involved in the death of a mentally ill man named Michael Lee Marshall, prompting the family to call for a federal investigation on Friday, KDVR reports. The incident occurred in November 2015 when Marshall–a reported homeless paranoid schizophrenic–was arrested for trespassing. While in custody at the station, police claim […]
Lakeisha Holloway "has been hit with a total of 71 charges, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding up to more than a millennium worth of jail time," the report says.
Romechia Simms, the Maryland mother who was found pushing her dead son on a swing for two days earlier this year, has been charged with…
Shannon Miles, the man authorities say shot and killed a Harris County, Texas deputy sheriff last week, faced prosecutors on Monday.
The man who carried an airsoft pellet gun and a hatchet into the Carmike Hickory 8 Cinema in Antioch, Tennessee was killed Wednesday.
According to a new study, the suicide rate amongst African-American children has almost doubled within the last two decades. The research, which was published in…