Philando Castile

Fundamentally, I’m a begrudging optimist. Pessimism just seems counterproductive so, no matter how awful things…

A woman in Oklahoma repeatedly refused being given a traffic ticket, authorities say, apparently going so far as to…

Leonard Pitts Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald, was laying in his bed in Bowie, Md.,…

It’s just one of the ways Valerie Castile is upholding her son’s legacy.

As a black person in America, we’ve all been there.

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When Wyatt Cenac unveiled his new late-night show, Problem Areas, at HBO’s New York City headquarters in midtown…

If you had to make a list of the top 10 people whose opinions on Martin Luther King Jr. you could have gone the rest…

Minneapolis police are searching for the gunman who fatally shot a community activist just outside his mother’s home.

Following Wayne LaPierre’s rigorous commitment to arming educators in the wake of yet another school shooting,…

I’m rarely shocked by racism. It often angers me. But knowing you live in a world co-existing alongside such evil…

It’s been more than a year since Philando Castile was shot and killed in St. Anthony, Minn., mere seconds after…

A fundraising campaign that was started to honor the memory of school-cafeteria supervisor Philando Castile has…

On Thursday they told us once again that what we saw with our very own eyes is not what happened. They switched the…

Philando Castile was known as a caring man at the St. Paul, Minn., school where he worked as a cafeteria supervisor.…

In an 8-2 vote on Thursday, the Minnesota peace officer training board declined to name a police training fund after…

It’s been some three-and-a-half weeks since a jury acquitted a St. Anthony, Minn., police officer in the death of…

Just three weeks after he was acquitted of all charges connected to the shooting death of Philando Castile, St.…

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