'These cameras captured footage of behavior consistent with a disgusting nationwide trend of law enforcement.'
By Ny Magee, TheGrio
Two Virgina cops are being sued by a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army after they assaulted and threatened him during a traffic stop last December.
Caron Nazario, who is Black and Latino,...
By Lisa Respires France, CNN
DMX, a rapper known as much for his troubles as his music, has died, his family announced in a statement. He was 50.
"We are deeply saddened to announce today that our loved one, DMX, birth name of Earl Simmons, passed away at 50-years-old at White...
ABC 7 Chicago
Chicago's faith community is mourning the death of a beloved minister Thursday.
Christ Universal Temple on Chicago's Far South Side announced Reverend Dr. Helen Ward Carry had died. She is known as a "living legend" at the church, and had been a senior minister there.
Rev. Dr. Carry had...
By Melissa Repko, CSNBC
Target said it will hire more Black-owned companies, launch a program to identify and support promising minority entrepreneurs and add products from more than 500 Black-owned brands to its shelves or website.
Altogether, the discounter said Wednesday, it will spend more than $2 billion with Black-owned businesses...
By Artemis Moshtaghian and Alanne Orjoux, CNN
The number of shootings in Chicago in the month of March -- and the number of shooting victims -- are at their highest in four years, according to data from the Chicago Police Department.
The Chicago Police's Monthly Crime Newsletter on city shootings and crime...
By Annie Grayer, CNN
Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida has died, his chief of staff Lale M. Morrison told CNN on Tuesday. He was 84.
Hastings death was first reported Tuesday by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
In January 2019, he announced that he was being treated for pancreatic cancer and planned to...
By Desiree Murphy, ET Online
DMX remains hospitalized after suffering a heart attack Friday night.
A source close to the 50-year-old actor tells ET that medical staff "tried to revive him twice in the house, and revived him again in the hospital" in White Plains, New York. As of 9 a.m. PT/12...
Devin Carter suffered bruises on both eyes and scratches to his face
By Ashley Terrell, TheGrio
The family of a Black teen has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Stockton, California and four police officers who “viciously beat” the teen during a 2020 arrest, according to NBC News.
Devin Carter,...
Police ID'd Noah Green as the 25-year-old Indiana man who was killed by Capitol police after ramming his vehicle into a barricade on Friday.
By Charise Frazier, NewsOne
Police ID’d Noah Green as the suspect who rammed his car into a U.S. Capitol security checkpoint, injuring one officer and killing another...
Reed says he was tortured into confessing to double murder by detectives working for disgraced CPD Cmdr. Jon Burge
By Jesse Kirsch, Liz Nagy and ABC7 Chicago Digital Team
Gerald Reed, who has served decades in prison while insisting he was tortured to force him to confess to a double murder,...
