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On Tuesday, the Department of Justice found Ferguson’s Police Department guilty of racially charged practices (that targeted Black residents). But they also concluded that former cop Darren Wilson would not be facing criminal charges for killing unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown. A shocking decision considering his murder was the capstone of why the DOJ investigated Ferguson’s racial bias in […]

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Judgment day has arrived for the infamous Ferguson Police department of Missouri. After the Department of Justice announced yesterday that Ferguson police were guilty of practicing systematic racism and “routinely violating the rights” of Black citizens, another bomb has dropped that the entire agency could all together be exterminated. MUST READ: BEAUTIFUL NEWS: Talib Kweli’s Ferguson Fundraiser […]

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The Department of Justice is seriously close to filing a lawsuit against the police department of Ferguson, seven months after disgraced cop Darren Wilson fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown back in August. MUST READ: BEAUTIFUL NEWS: Talib Kweli’s Ferguson Fundraiser Has Raised Over $100,000! The lawsuit will be the result of the investigation into Brown’s death, which […]

The outcry for social and racial equality–and the resulting protests across the nation–has forced Dartmouth College and create a new college course. With the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of officers in Ferguson and New York respectively, social unrest bubble up to the surface of national conversation as people took […]

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At a Wednesday night meeting held at St. Louis City Hall, a verbal exchange between the head of the St. Louis Police Officers Association Jeff Roorda and St. Louis Alderman Terry Kennedy went from 0 to 100 when Roorda heckled Kennedy by shouting from the back of the room, screaming, “How about some order here?” Roorda then pushed and shoved his […]

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Charles Blow revealed on Twitter this weekend that the concern and experiences of Black men targeted by cops and authorities are all too real. In fact, it hit home. On Saturday, Blow’s son Tahj was interrogated at gunpoint on the Yale University campus by Yale Police because he was mistaken for a burglar that was […]

An Oklahoma police department has released footage of one of their officers involved in a fatal shooting of a suspect. Muskogee Police Officer Chansey McMillin’s body camera captured graphic footage of him in the shooting death of 21-year old Terence D. Walker. According to reports, officers responded o a domestic disturbance on Jan. 17 at the Old […]

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When it comes to Bill O’Reilly, you don’t grab the popcorn, you grab the Advil because 99 percent of the time, you’re going to hear some bull from a man who refuses to understand anything that is not pro-White man or of archaic politics. The kicker this time is from his latest episode of The […]

A St. Louis County police department is trying to make amends after a Black man was wrongfully arrested and beaten due to mistaken identity. Joseph Swink was brutalized on his way home from an internship when cops captured him during a police chase on Thursday, KMOV reports. St. Louis County officers were pursuing a suspect named […]

“The New Yorker” is making a statement about racial and social equality for its upcoming cover to be released on Monday, and Martin Luther King Jr. is at the center of it all. This Martin Luther King Day the magazine decided to honor his legacy while calling attention to some of the senseless deaths that […]

The family of Matthew Ajibade has hired Mark O’Mara–the attorney and CNN analyst who helped George Zimmerman win a shocking acquittal in the shooting death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin. Ajibade’s family hired O’Mara to help them investigate the death of the 22-year-old, who died in police custody at the Chatham County Detention Center in […]