By Summer Lin, Miami Herald
A Black man is suing two Wisconsin police officers after he was mistaken for a burglar and handcuffed in his home, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
Keonte Furdge had been living with a friend in Monona and on June 2, Monona Police Department officers...
The significant settlement comes as the family waits to see if the officers involved will be charged.
Written by Madison J. Gray
The City of Louisville has announce that it has settled with the family of Breonna Taylor for as much as $12 million, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Tuesday afternoon (Sept....
More than 75 percent of children dying from covid-19 are minorities, a finding that echoes disproportionate death rates among adults
By William Wan, Washington Post
The coronavirus is killing Hispanic, Black and American Indian children at much higher numbers than their White peers, according to federal statistics released Tuesday.
The numbers —...
To say that police have killed Black people for doing much less is beyond an understatement.
By NewsOne
A judge in Oklahoma on Monday ordered the release of police video showing a white driver who was pulled over by cops and not only refused to follow orders and resisted arrest but...
By Craig Wall, ABC7 News
The City of Chicago launched a city-wide effort to recruit and hire contact tracers with about 500 jobs available.
The hiring is being done through 31 different community based organizations through a $56 million grant from the federal government.
The idea is to create jobs that benefit...
National Basketball Players Association Foundation Joins as a Philanthropic Partner in the Project
Own Our Own, an inner-city focused real estate fund, today announces its first Chicago-based project in partnership with Houston Rockets forward Robert Covington and former Chicago Bull and 2-time All-Star Luol Deng. Former players Pops Mensah-Bonsu...
Roderick Wilson was in a ride-share vehicle stopped for a busted tail light.
By Bill Hutchinson, ABC News
A white Georgia sheriff's deputy seen in a viral video repeatedly punching a Black man who was pinned to the ground has been fired after the man's family demanded he be released from...
By Pamela Kirkland, CNN
"Welcome to Freedom!" exclaims real estate agent Ashley Scott as she surveys the nearly 97 acres of land that she and a group of 19 Black families purchased in August.
"I'm hoping that it will be a thriving safe haven for people of color, for Black families...
By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN
President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and that he repeatedly played it down publicly, according to legendary...
By Chuck Goudie, Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel, Ross Weidner, Jonathan Fagg, Yun Choi and Adriana Aguilar
An I-Team data investigation of racial disparities in Chicago Police Department traffic stops shows Black drivers are far more likely to be stopped by Chicago Police than white drivers. New evidence also shows Black...
