James Lee Saltmarshall, 22, the Detroit father accused in April of murdering and raping his 8-month-old daughter,…
Updated Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 1:35 p.m. EDT: Commerce Independent School District trustee Michael Beane resigned…
The Rev. Carlton Lee, 34, National Action Network’s Ferguson, Mo., chapter president, died Tuesday morning after…
On June 12, 1963, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith assassinated Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers…
Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 34—son of the late Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Lumumba and community activist Nubia…
Terrorist group Boko Haram attacked villages near Chibok, Nigeria, last week, leaving at least 21 people dead.
The hunger strike at Folsom State Prison continues to go strong, with supporters planning a rally to take place this…
Lezley McSpadden, 37, mother of Michael Brown Jr. and the Ferguson movement, graduated from high school on May 26,…
The Milwaukee Common Council has approved a $2.3 million settlement for the young son of Dontre Hamilton, the…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, assistant professor of…
A group of Inglewood, Calif., police officers who fatally shot a young couple while they sat in a parked car are no…
If this weren’t a matter of national and global security, the jokes would write themselves.
Anthony Hammond, 34, was arrested Saturday night in Clearlake, Calif., after yelling racist slurs at a black man…
The family of Darius Smith, a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot by an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol…
On Wednesday, May 17, Kingston Frazier’s last full day on earth, he rode the bus home from North Jackson Elementary…
The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice announced on Wednesday that the Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention…
Updated Friday, May 26, 2017, 4:41 p.m. EDT:
Updated Thursday, May 25, 2017, 2:45 p.m. EDT: Nicholas Dean has been fired from his position at Crescent Leadership…