People who have been fed up the past several months with the string of incidents in which police officers have used excessive force against unarmed black men and women will be relieved to hear that at least a dozen police departments across the nation are beginning to equip their officers with video cameras, the New York Times reports. That’s right.…

It’s sort of a weird benchmark to use to illustrate just how many sub-Saharan black Africans have immigrated to the United States over the past several years, but it’s impactful: According to a New York Times report, more black Africans moved to the U.S. between 2000 and 2010 than were brought to the North American continent by slave ship during…

During a recent Monopoly night with my husband, I was ahead, with lots of cash and some properties. But a few bad rolls of the die later, I found myself mortgaging my properties. I lost more equity at every turn despite the $200 in play money I had amassed. And then, to make matters worse,…

Growing up Mormon in rural Alabama sheltered me from many lessons that my friends and cousins had learned at an even younger age—some trivial (like how to cuss) and some more vital (like how to stand up for yourself, even when you’re afraid). In time, life would teach me these lessons and so many more.…

A Georgia woman filed a tax return claiming the state owed her $94 million, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday. Problem was, the claim was false, authorities say. The woman, Brigitte Jackson, was arrested Friday when she attempted to pick up her check at a Cobb County bank, Channel 2 Action News reported. She was charged…

In a broad new policy, the Department of Justice is set to ban religious and other forms of profiling by federal law-enforcement officers, according to the Los Angeles Times. Under the new guidelines, to be issued in about three weeks, there will be no exemption for national-security investigations, sources told the newspaper. National-security officials and…

Police investigators are on the lookout for two men after a Ferguson, Mo., officer was shot while responding to a burglary report at a town community center, police said, according to the Los Angeles Times. The officer, whose name has not been released, reportedly confronted two males leaving the Ferguson Community Center about 9 p.m.…

Speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual awards dinner Saturday evening, President Obama addressed the mistrust of police in black communities, according to a statement from the White House. He also announced the addition of a “community challenge” to his My Brother’s Keeper initiative in an effort to help all young people succeed. The…