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https://twitter.com/theGrio/status/781502443628683265 There have been a lot of outrageous excuses for police officers shooting and killing unarmed black men in this country, but Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby‘s has to be the worst. After killing 40-year-old Terence Crutcher last week, Shelby’s attorney Scott Wood revealed that the officer had a temporary loss of hearing during the confrontation with […]
There's fierce advocacy for animal equality, but silence when it comes to the countless police shootings involving Black men and women in this country.
The 'Heal Our Communities' forum is a scholarship awareness reception aimed at bridging the educational gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.
Facing 24 years, she's probably missing her old job right about now.
Jose Fernandez's pregnant girlfriend Maria Arias appeared in public for the first time since his death.
President Barack Obama again defended Colin Kaepernick's right to protest during CNN's presidential town on Wednesday night.
A New Jersey Transit train crashed at a Hoboken station on Thursday morning, killing at least one person and injuring about 100 others, NBC News reports.
East Tennessee State University police arrested a White student wearing a gorilla mask at a BLM protest. He told the police he wanted to provoke the demonstrators.
At a news presser, Chief Jeff Davis said Olango was pointing a vaping device at police when he was shot and killed near a strip mall outside of San Diego.
Chicago prosecutors charged a man with a child's murder more than two decades after the crime. DNA evidence exonerated an inmate serving a life sentence for the murder.
Social media erupted on Tuesday after a Snapchat screenshot went viral, showing a police officer in uniform with text that included a racial slur.
Sometimes the simplest stories lead to the biggest lessons. Ashley Owens of Charlotte, North Carolina discovered that for herself when she went shopping for some kitchenware in her neighborhood. The young woman shared a story about getting into an argument a racist white woman — and the incredible events that followed — in a […]
