Understanding Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s purpose behind creating an annual ritual to acknowledge and accumulate the contributions of blacks in the face of overt racism, a young photographer and activist from the Washington D.C. metropolitan area decided to get back to basics. In February 2013, Eunique Jones Gibson released a series of engaging photographs in an […]
The trial for Michael Dunn, the man who fatally shot unarmed Florida teen Jordan Davis in November 2012, just months after Trayvon Martin was killed, is set to start on Monday. A judge has decided not to televise the jury selection for Dunn’s high-profile trial. If you recall, Dunn shot Jordan during a verbal dispute at a […]
On Tuesday, after President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address, a powerful movement of young people delivered theirs — a call for social justice and equality that came on the heels of the group’s pre-State of the Union #BarackTalk Twitter Townhall (where civic engagement groups talked about priorities of millions of young voters […]
It’s no secret. Police don’t often live by the same laws as the citizens they are tasked with protecting. And often times, the ones designated to protect us can be the same ones that harm us. Police brutality isn’t a new development — in fact, paramilitary forces have been abusing their power for as long […]
In the wake of a controversial ruling that let a wealthy drunk-driving Texas teenager walk free after killing four, a California lawmaker is making sure it doesn’t happen again. Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, introduced a bill in the state Legislature on Tuesday that would prohibit an “affluenza” defense at trial or during post-trial sentencing […]
Two California cops who beat a schizophrenic homeless man to death two years ago were just found not guilty of all charges on Monday. The incident was the first time in this country that officers were charged with murder for actions taken on duty. An Orange County jury deliberated for two days before reaching the […]
It’s been exactly a year since Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson learned that their son, Kendrick, was found dead and rolled up in gym mats at his Georgia high school. It has been a year full of grief, uncertainty and confusion. A year of spending their days outside the Lowndes County Courthouse waiting for answers regarding […]
This will make you think twice about justice in our nation. Three years ago, a 16-year-old was arrested while walking home from a party in the Bronx. Police said they received a tip that Kalief Browder was involved in a robbery three weeks before. He was taken to the infamous Rikers Island, a prison known for […]
Blurry images, cut footage, no time stamps. When footage of Kendrick Johnson in a Georgia school gym just moments before his death was released to his family, they knew something was wrong. Now, a video expert is confirming that the “raw feed” Lowndes County Schools released is “highly suspicious” and was most likely tampered with. […]
Just this afternoon, prosecutors charged the 54-year-old man who fatally shot an unarmed Renisha McBride on Nov. 2 with second-degree murder. It was also this afternoon that we finally learned the name of the shooter, who police had refused to identify in the 13 days leading up to his arrest. His name is Theodore P. […]
The man who shot and killed a 19-year-old in Dearborn, Michigan on November 2 immediately called police afterwards to confess, according to audio obtained by the Detroit News. The man, who still remains unidentified, told police that he had “just shot someone on his porch” — that someone being Renisha McBride, the teenager who crashed […]
As new questions surrounding the mysterious death of Kendrick Johnson proliferate, the coroner in the Georgia teen’s case is voicing his disapproval in how authorities handled the investigation. In a report obtained by CNN through an open records request directed at the coroner’s office, the coroner explains in detail the numerous mistakes made by the investigation team […]
