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According to a recent report released by the California State Auditor on Thursday, nearly 40 female prison inmates in California were sterilized illegally. Of the 144 inmates who underwent tubal ligations between 2005 and 2013, one-third were performed without lawful consent. 

The Institute of the Black World along with Black Family Summit Organizations will host a “Free Her” rally in hopes of calling attention to the affects of mass incarceration on women. Thousands of concerned citizens along with members of national organizations are expected to converge on the National Mall in Washington, D. C. on Saturday, […]

The Dallas County Commissioners Court accidentally declared Tuesday that African-Americans deserve reparations for slavery. Most commissioners did not seem to know that they were doing so. 

A video of a man being shot to death by police as he sat in handcuffs has been released. An El Paso police officer pulled his Taser gun after drawing his handgun and fatally shot the man at the Downtown Jail last year.

  A 23-year-old tow truck driver lost his life early Friday as he attempted to repossess a vehicle in northern Fauquier County Maryland. Junior Jordan Montero died of a gunshot wound just after midnight. 

Roger Logan is finally free after spending nearly 17 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit. Logan was convicted for killing Sherwin Gibbons in Bedford-Stuyvesant, but always maintained his innocence. 

  A Colorado man who turned his life around after being freed on accident due to court error is back behind bars. Rene Lima-Marin was sentenced to 90 years in prison, and was 19 years old when he robbed two video stores at gunpoint 15 years ago. 

A 19-year-old teen who is suffering from a deadly form of cancer has landed a record deal with Sony Music Entertainment.  Jeff Mortimer was just 16 when he was diagnosed with spindle cell sarcoma, a form of muscle cancer. 

Houston officials and residents honored civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with a statue on Saturday. National leaders and activists have been pushing for the statue for decades. 

A Mississippi Justice Court judge is accused of striking a mentally ill man and calling him the n-word.  Witnesses say the attack was unprovoked. 

  A New York police officer who fatally shot a 16-year-old boy in 2013 has been named “Cop of the Year.” But Sgt. Mourad Mourad declined the award from the NYPD Muslim Officers Society after community members protested it. 

A retired professional baseball player says he was racially profiled while shoveling the driveway of his Hartford, Connecticut home. Doug Glanville published an op-ed in The Atlantic recounting his experience with a police officer.