Exclusive ‘They Should Have Known When They Pulled Me Out…I Was Not One Of the Guys’: Elderly Texas Couple Sue Police After Being Held at Gunpoint, Mistaken for Teenagers
Exclusive ‘It was Definitely Over $100,000’: Black Graduates Saddled with Thousands in Loan Debt Support NAACP Pressuring Biden to Cancel Student Loan Debt
Exclusive ‘He Wasn’t Threatening Them or Himself and He Didn’t Have Any Weapons’: Family of Indiana Man Who Died in Police Custody During Mental Health Crisis Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Exclusive Five Years After a Prosecutor Found No Reason to Charge a White Cop Who Violently Beat a Black Man During a Traffic Stop, a Jury Took Just Hours to Convict Him, Thanks to a Legal Loophole
Exclusive ‘We Just Want the Truth to be Told’: Historic Marker Remembering Lynched Alabama Man Sparks Controversy Along Racial Lines
Exclusive ‘There’s No Accountability for the Doctors, Hospital’: Black Father Blames Medical Staff at New York Hospital for Mother of His Son Dying While Giving Birth
Exclusive ‘Mama Never Drank, Mama Never Smoked’: 109- Year-Old Georgia Woman Shares Secrets to a Full, Long Life
Exclusive ‘I Was Confident They Would Accept Me’: 13-Year-Old Makes History as Youngest African-American Accepted to Medical School
Blogs ‘Within 50 Seconds of Police Arriving, This Officer Punching This Young Lady’: Parents of Illinois 19-Year-Old Killed By Police After Restaurant Dispute File Wrongful-Death Lawsuit
Exclusive ‘They’re Going In and They’re Swinging’: Tennessee Police Followed an Unarmed Black Man Home After Failed Traffic Stop and Brutally Beat Him In Front of His Loved Ones
Exclusive ‘How Do You Just Give Away Half a Million Dollars’: Black Philadelphia Artists Call Selection Process of White Artist to Sculpt Harriet Tubman Statue Unfair
Exclusive ‘Do Something About It’: Family of Girls Snubbed By Rosita of Sesame Place Parade Wants Performer Fired, Weighs Lawsuit
Exclusive ‘Shot Me In Jail Because I Wouldn’t Admit’: Exonerated Man Who Spent 44 Years In Prison for Sex Crime Against Two White Teens Is Suing Accusers and Cops He Claims Framed Him
Exclusive ‘Bystander Video and Police Officer Video are Different’: Activists Worry About Long-term Impacts of Arizona Law Making It Illegal to Record Police
Exclusive ‘I’d Like a New Investigation’: Family of Pregnant Woman Killed By Seattle Cops In 2017 Wants Officers Criminally Charged As Prosecutor Weighs Evidence
Exclusive ‘We’re Changing the Perspective’: TikTok Creator Tears Down Myths on Gullah Geechee Culture with Posts Amassing Hundreds of Thousands of Views
Exclusive ‘They Don’t Address Young Black Missing Women the Same Way’: Ohio Mother Blames Police for Daughter’s Death, Sues Department for Faulty Investigation
Exclusive ‘Anytime You Put Chemicals in Your Hair…There’s Going to be Some Type of Ramifications’: New Study Links Chemical Found In Some Black Hair Products to Breast Cancer
National ‘Too Close of A Relationship With These Police’: Matthew Zadok Williams’ Family to File Civil Lawsuit Against County, Officers Involved in Deadly Shooting After DA’s ‘Ridiculous’ Decision Not to File Criminal Charges
Exclusive ‘I Think It Will Inspire … People That Look Like Me’: Black Nurse Who Was First to Get COVID Vaccine Receives Highest Civilian Honor Alongside Denzel Washington and Simone Biles