Within hours of his call to 911 outside a convenience store, Sterling Higgins lay dead, after video shows him being forcibly restrained on the floor…
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NFL free agent Antonio Brown was sentenced to two years of probation Friday after he pleaded no contest to charges stemming from an incident in which…
Continue Reading The son of NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar faces an assault with a deadly weapon charge after a stabbing incident in California. Deputies from the…
Continue Reading A fitness trainer who worked for Anytime Fitness in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, has been fired after promoting an “I Can’t Breathe”…
Continue Reading De Lacy Davis remembers the moment vividly. The New Jersey officer and a fellow officer were patrolling the streets of East Orange when a black woman…
Continue Reading Oklahoma City police this week released body-camera video of a 2019 arrest of an armed black man who died not long after saying repeatedly during the…
Continue Reading Police officers will soon no longer work in Denver’s public schools. The Denver school board voted unanimously on Thursday to end its contract…
Continue Reading New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday signed what he called the “most aggressive” police reform legislative package in the nation in a…
Continue Reading A woman was caught on video harassing a Filipino American woman as she exercised this week at a Southern California park, the latest in a string of…
Continue Reading The National Basketball Association has laid out plans for coronavirus testing as 22 teams prepare to restart the 2019-20 season in July. To begin…
Continue Reading The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a resolution declaring it will create a “transformative new model” of…
Continue Reading Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she was shocked by video showing 13 police officers lounging in a congressman’s office during protests and…
Continue Reading Kennedy Mitchum wasn’t expecting much when she emailed Merriam-Webster last month, but she wanted to let the dictionary publisher know that she…
Continue Reading The Minnesota Board of Pardons posthumously pardoned Max Mason by unanimous vote Friday, 100 years after he was accused in a rape case that led to…
Continue Reading Parents of America’s 56 million school children have two questions: When will schools reopen and how will they be safe? Getting answers is…
Continue Reading Four years ago on June 12, 2016, one of the worst mass shootings in US history claimed 49 lives at a Florida gay bar. This morning, people across the…
Continue Reading Ancient footprints embedded in rock in South Korea likely belonged to a prehistoric crocodile that walked on two legs, paleontologists said.…
Continue Reading About 600 million light-years away from Earth, the heartbeat of a supermassive black hole can be seen emanating from the center of a galaxy.…
Continue Reading The NFL announced it would pledge $250 million over the next ten years to help fight systematic racism. The money will be allocated to a fund that…
Continue Reading Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin could receive more than $1 million in pension benefits during his retirement years even if he is…
Continue Reading “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” That rhyme has long been how American students were introduced to Christopher Columbus in…
Continue Reading When NASCAR announced that it would be banning the flying of the Confederate flag at races, one little-known driver decided that this season would be…
Continue Reading The wife of Li Wenliang, the Wuhan whistleblower doctor who died of coronavirus in February, has given birth to their son, according to the Chinese…
Continue Reading The NFL is the latest big name to make a commitment to racial justice — to the tune of $250 million over the next 10 years. Here’s what…
Continue Reading As Confederate statues are coming down across the nation, protesters in downtown Raleigh took it upon themselves to put a new plaque on a monument at…
Continue Reading The death of a single mother in the Philippines who died after trying to get a bus home during the country’s coronavirus lockdown has led to…
Continue Reading Thirteen Chicago police officers lounged and slept in the congressional campaign office of US Rep. Bobby Rush on June 1 as protests and looting…
Continue Reading When Minneapolis-based activist Michelle Gross learned the name of the officer who planted his knee on the neck of George Floyd until after he lost…
Continue Reading A resolution being drafted by Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak would pardon tens of thousands of people who have been convicted for possessing small amounts…
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