In the early morning hours of Thursday, Sept. 6, 19-year-old Darell Richards was shot and killed by a SWAT officer with…
More than two months after an unarmed and innocent 26-year-old, Botham Shem Jean, was shot to death in his apartment by…
The headline should have been: “Security Guard Apprehends Shooter and Saves Lives.” Instead, it’s another case of the…
In a perfect world, black people wouldn’t face incessant discrimination over our choice of dress, dialect, impeccable…
Just days after the Sacramento Police Department alerted the media that their investigation into the officer-involved…
Seven months and seven days after 22-year-old Stephon Clark was killed on the patio in the backyard of his…
Though the modern narrative on police brutality tends to focus on murdered black men, black women and girls are also…
When discussing America’s police state, we often talk about “black bodies.” The conversation is peppered with words…
Police “activists” in New Jersey staged a protest outside of the employer of a black healthcare administrator who made…
A Maryland police officer was arrested Monday evening and charged with raping a woman during a police stop after a…
A video of a woman’s reaction to a police officer literally strong-arming her nephew at a Georgia mall shows the…
Apparently we at The Root—and specifically, staff writer Michael Harriot—are not the only ones adept at delivering a…
Sheriff Rickey Roberts of the Union County, Ark., Sherriff’s Office, was apparently so incensed that Colin Kaepernick…
iPhone users have created shortcuts that allow Apple’s flagship product to automatically record video, text a location…
Closing arguments are scheduled for Thursday in the shooting death of a Chicago teen, Laquan McDonald, who died at the…
The Dallas Police Department and the city’s District Attorney’s Office refuse to release a slew of records that could…
Students at North Carolina Central University walked out of classes on Monday in protest of their classmate Deandre…
An investigation is ongoing and no charges have been filed in the case of a North Carolina Central University student…
The family of Botham Jean, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by an off-duty Dallas police officer after she…
Amber Guyger—the 30-year-old police officer who shot and killed 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean as he sat in his own…
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