Did callous New York paramedics and police leave Eric Garner to die? It’s a disturbing question being asked by civil rights activists, witnesses and Garner’s…

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Southern California’s record of police brutality has been well documented, with the Rodney King case and the ensuing 1992 riots in Los Angeles serving as…

(HOUSTON) — A family is demanding justice for what they call excessive police force. In April, 21-year-old Joseph Roberts was a passenger in a vehicle…

In the words of Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on?” The light shining on police brutality and the use of excessive force has been burning bright as of late. A pregnant woman in Rochester, NY was allegedly forced to the ground and punched in the head. A fourteen year old boy from Pennsylvania, accused of stealing […]

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Marlon Brown, 38, of Deland, Florida was killed on May 8 when police officers ran him over in a patrol car and. Now his family…

Reginald Davis  says he was too tired to go home and claims he took a nap in his car along the seawall, he did admit that he ran from the police towards the beach fearing that he might be arrested for outstanding traffic tickets.  

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This year at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, one independent film presented by young African American filmmaker Ryan Coogler stood out among others. The film,…

In 2009, a young man named Oscar Grant III was headed home to Oakland from New Year’s Eve partying in neighboring San Francisco. He never…

The Mississippi Chapter of the National Action Network (NAN), community leaders and local clergy in Natchez, Mississippi have joined forces to protest the vicious Tasering…

Debra Simmons, vice-president of the Mississippi Chapter of the National Action Network (NAN), the civil rights organization founded by Rev. Al Sharpton, was violently pushed…

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On May 2, 1963 a large crowd of black teens came rushing through the doors of the 16th Street Baptist Church in protest of Bull…

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Almost a year after 22-year-old Rekia Boyd (pictured) was gunned down on Chicago’s West Side by Chicago detective Dante Servin, the Chicago City Council Wednesday…