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The mother of a White Utah teenager claims her daughter is being discriminated against at her charter school for sporting dreadlocks.

A Black female banker is coming forward after she was forced to spend over a week in a psychiatric ward — all because police officers…

Footage of James Blake being aggressively thrown to the ground by a New York police officer has surfaced on the web. The video was released by the NYPD and it shows Blake standing casually outside of the Grand Hyatt Hotel before an officer runs up to him and shoves him to the ground. He was patiently […]

https://instagram.com/p/7QMLYQsL04/ 50 Cent is definitely far from broke. The Queens rapper shared a video of his new African mansion, which is under construction at the moment. He captioned the clip: My crib is almost finished in AFRICA. I’m gonna have the craziest House warming party ever. I’ll explain later. I got a good life Man.” The Power […]

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The cops allege a backlash after refusing to carry out quotas for tickets, summons or arrests made in predominantly Black and Latino areas

A McKinney, Texas police officer has been suspended from his regular duties after footage of him handcuffing and pulling out a weapon on a group of black teenagers during a local pool party surfaced the web. Buzzfeed reports: Officers were called to the a local community pool around 7:15 p.m. local time to respond to […]

According to LAPD inspector general Alex Bustamante, officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas were “justified” in the actions they took against Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man who died from deadly police force in 2014. LA Times reports: Department investigators found evidence indicating that Ford had fought for control of one officer’s gun, bolstering […]

A series of selfies comedian Chris Rock posted to Instagram recently is continuing the conversation surrounding police encounters with African-Americans. The comedian shared photos of himself getting pulled over by police on three different occasions in the last two months. While he’s seen in the passenger, driver, and backseat, the comedian stays optimistic during each encounter, asking his fans via […]

Taraji P. Henson recently made claims that her son was a victim of racial profiling, but it turns out that wasn’t the case at all. After a video showing the interaction between her son and the officer who stopped him surfaced, the Empire actress is now publicly apologizing for saying that he had been racially profiled by […]

Taraji P. Henson caused quite a discussion on social media after she revealed that her son had been racially profiled while he was visiting the University of Southern California. The alleged incident, which she revealed in her interview with Uptown Magazine, led the Empire actress to send her son, Marcel, to an HBCU in order to avoid […]

With tensions between minorities and police at an all-time high these days, some parents are taking more precautions to keep their children safe. In a recent interview with Uptown Magazine, Taraji P. Henson revealed that her son was racially profiled during a trip to the University of Southern California: the college he was initially going to attend. However, the Empire actress […]

In the midst of all the chaos happening in New York, a divide in the NYPD force has occurred between black and white cops. Numerous NYPD cops, both on and off duty, are stepping forward and voicing their experiences on racial profiling. Reuters reports: Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are […]