Dear Rachel Dolezar: Here’s why I’m not going to let you and the media distract me from all the important issues Black America is facing…

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A recent Tampa Bay Times expose revealed that Tampa police write more bike tickets than the combined cities surrounding it combined. Those tickets are for things…

A series of selfies comedian Chris Rock posted to Instagram recently is continuing the conversation surrounding police encounters with African-Americans. The comedian shared photos of himself getting pulled over by…

  Taraji P. Henson has apologized to a California police department for claims she made an officer racially profiled her son. The Empire scene stealer made…

Three black brothers, ages 17, 14 and 11 were escorted from Crabtree Valley Mall on February 28th, a day when the temps were only in the 30s. Their parents, LaVonda and Craig Bowden believe the boys and a friend were racially profiled, according to the News & Observer. Bobby Medlin, the general manager of Crabtree […]

Black suspects continue to be overrepresented in crime newscasts in New York City on WCBS, WNBC, WABC, and WNYW, according to a report released Monday…

Three African American women are taking legal action against the NYPD for falsely accusing them of stealing a credit card and placing them in jail.…

Despite two recent decisions by grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island not to indict White police officers in the killings of two unarmed Black…

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The federal government is taking broad new steps to ban profiling by law enforcement agencies, bolstering a 2003 policy that previously only addressed the consideration…

Sara Bennett, who lives in the predominantly White neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York’s Park Slope area, reportedly witnessed a New York City policeman yell over the loudspeaker…

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Do you live in one of the states without racial profiling laws? A new report from the NAACP finds out that 20 states don’t have laws…

Thirteen organizations — which include the ACLU, NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Action Network, and Rainbow Push Coalition — sent…