49 year-old Ronald Greene was tased, punched, and dragged by Louisiana state troopers during a traffic stop turned…
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Rachel J. Pilgrim is a staff writer for The Root, double Ivy League graduate and mom to two cats named Zora and Toni.
Hundreds of people occupied city hall chambers in Englewood, N.J., in protest of the school board's refusal to…
Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison is charged with three counts of felony wanton endangerment for the…
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"She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home,” the office for New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote…
Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael along with William "Roddie" Bryan are sentenced
Two elementary schools named after founding fathers and slaveholders, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, are among…
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan's new district attorney, recalled his own experience with the criminal justice system as a…
Brooks returned home to a Jim Crow era South in , denied his GI Bill benefits.
The proposed package of bills includes $5,000 signing bonuses and another $2,000 for officers already on the force…
30-year-old mixed race shoemaker, Homer Plessy, was arrested for sitting on a whites only train car in 1897. The…
A mercenary group of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans carried out the attack at Haitian President Jovenel…
The former Black Panther leader was first elected to the house of Representatives in 1992 and beat former President…
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ran to social platform GETTR to complain about the "censorship."
“Is it George Floyd? Yes. Is it Jesus? Yes. There’s sacredness in every person.”
The ensuing chaos eclipsed the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake
Omarion Omicron is on a world tour and making special appearances in Congress, with Rep. Bobby Rush bringing…
Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Charles Donohoe claimed "free speech" in a motion to dismiss charges…
The autopsy contradicts the original preliminary report that 17-year-old Cedric Lofton received "no life-threatening…
"It's a fake religion created by a psychopath," Greene tweeted on Sunday, the first day of Kwanzaa.