Criminal Justice
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Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Are Going to Prison For a Long Time
Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael along with William “Roddie” Bryan are sentenced
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The Nacole Smith Tragedy Shows Why We Must Protect Black Women
After 27 years, police finally solved the 14-year-old’s murder
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Louisiana Governor Pardons Plessy, 125 Years After ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling in Plessy v Ferguson
30-year-old mixed race shoemaker, Homer Plessy, was arrested for sitting on a whites only train car in 1897. The case made way for decades of segregation laws.
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George Floyd’s 4-Year-Old Niece Shot While Sleeping in Houston Home on New Year’s Day
Houston Police took four hours to arrive at the scene of the shooting
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Officer in Mississippi Discovers Her Son’s Body After Responding to Call of a Shooting
Officer Laquandia Cooley responded to a shooting in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, only for her to find the victim to be her own son
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Chicago Reaches Highest Level of Homicides Since 1996, With 80 Percent of the Victims Being Black
For the first time since 1996, Chicago reaches more than 800 homicides in the city
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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman Gives Support Continuing the At-Home Confinement Provision Done By the Cares Act
The congresswoman noted rehabilitation and the ongoing pandemic for lower-level offenders
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Juror In Kim Potter Trial Speaks About Guilty Verdict Deliberations
“This was strictly about Daunte Wright, Kim Potter, and the law,” the juror said
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What Doesn’t Inglewood Want You to Know About Its Cops?
Police departments nationwide are hiding records of police misconduct