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Former Miami Heat star forward Ray Allen is again standing on center court. This time, however, Allen stands in the unusual plight of victim. He was inadvertently thrust into the spotlight by events that reinforce the problems of places like Ferguson, Mo., and the issues of fairness and equality and justice across this country. Unlike…

I didn’t fully understand the privileges that I enjoy as a black female in America until a recent incident, punctuated by the shooting death of Michael Brown, made it all the more clear. Yep, you read that right—I’m touting my privileges as a black female, not my woes, which are typically what are written about…

I have been so offended and angered by what some of my friends on Facebook have said about Michael Brown and the situation in Ferguson (he was a thug, he deserved it, black people destroy their own communities, blacks are criminals, all the police officers in Ferguson should quit because blacks don’t appreciate them and more).…

Police in St. Louis shot and killed a man who witnesses say robbed a store and began acting erratically once police arrived, including moving toward the officers the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. According to the newspaper, the shooting happened around 12:30 p.m. after a man entered the Six Stars Market, grabbed several items and left. A…

Darren Wilson isn’t the “cold-blooded murderer” that people are making him out to be and is really “struggling” with what happened during the shooting. That’s what a friend, who wished to remain unidentified, told ABC News in an interview. “Darren’s a good person, and people have immediately labeled him as a cold-blooded murderer, and that’s…

The results from a second autopsy ordered by the family of Michael Brown, the unarmed Ferguson, Mo., teen who was shot and killed by a police officer Aug. 9, show that there was no struggle between Brown and the officer before he was shot six times, according to Daryl Parks, one of the family’s lawyers.…

The case of the Staten Island, N.Y., father of six who died after an altercation with New York City Police Department officers will go before a grand jury, the New York Times reports. After reviewing evidence gathered by his own office’s investigation and an autopsy conducted by a medical examiner, Staten Island District Attorney Daniel…

As of press time, at least five eyewitnesses in the Michael Brown shooting case have come forward. All five witnesses had distinct vantage points: One person was with Brown during the incident, one woman was inside her vehicle, another woman observed the incident from her apartment balcony, one man was inside his apartment and another…

Campus officers in Compton, Calif., have been authorized to carry AR-15 assault rifles, KPCC reports. The argument in favor of the military-issued assault weapons, which follows a vote that the school board passed in July, is that campus officers are currently not adequately equipped to handle a terrorist attack or mass shooting, according to Compton…

The grandfather of slain Ferguson, Mo., teen Michael Brown called the lack of an arrest in his grandson’s killing “1,000 percent wrong” in an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC. “It’s 1,000 percent wrong. If you take the scenario and turn it around, if I was to go out there and brutally murder…