Hamstrung by ‘golden handcuffs’: Diversity roles disappear 3 years after George Floyd's murder
The diversity, equity, and inclusion leaders that were hired in waves to assist companies in creating ethnically balanced workforces...
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Mar 10, 20232 min read
Some families spend everything they have to support incarcerated loved ones.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2.3 million people are held behind bars in the United States every year at the cost of...
Mar 8, 20232 min read
Knoxville police release videos from arrest, transport of woman who died in custody
Video recordings released by the Knoxville Police Department on Feb. 23 show a 60-year-old woman collapsed during her arrest and later...
Mar 7, 20232 min read
An NYPD captain is facing two more lawsuits accusing him of abuse against female employees
NBC News investigated allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination in big-city law enforcement and found a captain of the New York...
Mar 6, 20231 min read
An unarmed man was shot and killed by a Colorado deputy at point-blank range outside a middle school
In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday, a Pueblo County deputy shot and killed a man who had accidentally gotten into the wrong...
Mar 6, 20231 min read
New York Will Pay Millions to Protesters Violently Corralled by Police
A legal settlement has been reached with New York City to compensate hundreds of protesters who were detained by police and beaten with...
Mar 4, 20232 min read
Why Trees Matter
When you travel to different parts of a city, various features of the environment tend to change. Those features may be styles of...
Mar 3, 20232 min read
Why more Black families are considering home-schooling their children
For Black families, homeschooling has become a better option for their children's education. There was a significant increase in Black...
Mar 2, 20231 min read
The oldest Black publisher in the U.S. raises over $100,000 after flood destroys iconic inventory
A recent winter flood damaged the publishing home of Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks, poet and playwright Amiri Baraka, and...
Feb 28, 20232 min read
Church of England sheds light on ‘shameful’ slave trade ties
In an effort to acknowledge its historical culpability in slavery, the Church of England has set up an exhibition in its library that...
Feb 27, 20232 min read
New York state trooper arrested for issuing dozens of fake traffic tickets
The NY State Police arrested and charged a trooper with issuing over 2 dozen fake traffic tickets to unaware drivers during traffic stops...
Feb 25, 20232 min read
London Metropolitan police officer David Carrick sentenced to life for nearly 50 counts of sexual
In the span of almost 20 years, a police officer with London's Metropolitan Police committed dozens of rapes and other sexual offenses...
Feb 24, 20232 min read
The discovery of a sunken slave ship prompted efforts to humanize the victims of American slavery
In 2015, a Smithsonian delegation shared a long-overdue discovery with the Makua people of Mozambique. Over 200 years after the...
Feb 24, 20232 min read
In response to neo-Nazi homeschoolers, the Ohio Department of Education says it will do nothing
Despite investigating a neo-Nazi homeschool network in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the Ohio Department of Education appears to have concluded...
Feb 24, 20232 min read
The five ex-Memphis officers who beat Tyre Nichols to death have all pleaded not guilty
At their first court appearance in Memphis, the five former police officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man...
Feb 23, 20232 min read
An Oklahoma lawmaker's bill might give some women who were incarcerated for abuse a second chance
There are thousands of mothers in women's prisons around the country who have been arrested because of domestic violence. An...
Feb 22, 20231 min read
Black Colorado ranchers who have been terrorized by racist locals arrested after filing complaint
With the NAACP's assistance, a farming couple in Colorado is being released from jail after they claimed continuous racial harassment...
Feb 21, 20232 min read
Black Army Vet Says Same Memphis Cops Beat Him Days Before Killing Tyre Nichols
During a visit to his cousin outside an apartment complex in Memphis, Tennessee, on the evening of Jan. 4, a Black army veteran named...
Feb 17, 20232 min read
The Cleveland Police Department's response to kids in crisis is marked by disparities in footage
In an investigation conducted by The Marshall Project - Cleveland and Eye on Ohio, it was found that the Cleveland Division of Police...
Feb 16, 20232 min read
An unserved 1955 arrest warrant has prompted Emmett Till's family to seek Carolyn Bryant's arrest.
The family of Emmett Till is seeking to enforce an arrest warrant that was issued in 1955 for a white woman involved in the kidnapping...
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