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White Man Wrongly Branded as Killer of 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes Dead of Apparent Suicide

Many hearts shattered with the news of the tragic shooting death of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes, the little girl who was gunned down in a Houston-area Walmart parking lot in December 2018. Initially thought to be a racially motivated crime, an innocent white man whose photo went viral soon after the incident has died of an…

By

Angela Helm

Published

August 1, 2019
Entertainment

Crown Heights Exposes a Very Common American Problem: Wrongful Conviction

The time is 1980. The place is the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in New York City. The man is 18-year-old Colin Warner. It’s a familiar scenario. An unarmed black man is walking through his own neighborhood, minding his business, when, within the blink of an eye, his whole life changes. Police officers pull up,…

By

Danielle Young

Published

August 18, 2017