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A never-before-seen video showing a woman getting pepper-sprayed by a California police officer has been released. A Riverside jury heard the case against former officer Enoch Clark, who is charged with using excessive force against Monique Hernandez during a traffic stop in 2012. 

  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told graduates during a commencement address at Morgan State University that subtle, everyday racism within the criminal justice system especially, is far more harmful than racist outbursts. He used examples such as those by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. He referred to the […]

A man convicted of killing a woman in 1979 was released from prison on Monday after prosecutors noted misconduct in the case. Reginald Adams has spent the last 34 years behind bars for the death of Cathy Ulfers, the wife of a New Orleans police officer. His conviction was based on a false testimony of […]

Convicted rapist and murderer Clayton Lockett’s execution was botched to say the least. The death row inmate ended up struggling for 43 minutes against his straps before finally succumbing to a heart attack. Authorities decided to take a closer look at the cocktail of drugs used for execution of inmates. What they found was startling. 

I remember sitting in the courtroom for my cousins hearing.  It was him and 4 other young men, who were all sitting in khaki colored prison jumpsuits with handcuffs and chains shackled from their hands all the way down to their feet.  The scene became all too reminiscent of the images of young enslaved Africans […]

A man who was arrested 13 years after being convicted has been freed. Cornealious “Mike” Anderson spent nearly a year behind bars after officials caught a clerical error made more than a decade ago.

In a written statement, comedian D.L. Hughley apologized for previous comments made about former Scandal actor Columbus Short’s wife.  Here’s what he originally said: “The star of one of the hottest dramas in the country, chokes the f*ck out of his wife? That doesn’t ever happen. I don’t think it happened first off. Like the time Warren […]

In December, we reported that Taj Patterson, a black, gay New York fashion student, was attacked by five Hasidic men while walking home from a night out. The men have since been charged in connection to the incident. 

  Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer whose wrongful conviction became an international symbol of racial inequity, has died at 76. Carter, who suffered from prostate cancer, passed away in his sleep Sunday. 

R&B sensation Chris Brown is set to appear in court Monday on charges of an alleged assault outside a hotel in Washington. If convicted, Brown could face up to six months in jail and a fine of $1,000. 

  Edward James and other members of BYP 100 joined thousands of protesters on Tallahassee on Thursday. The civil rights groups demanded justice for Marissa Alexander. 

North Carolina’s Supreme Court heard arguments about whether it should reinstate death sentences for four inmates whose punishments were reduced. The appeal seeks to challenge the ruling of a law that allowed certain criminal defendants to challenge their sentences on the grounds of racial bias in their prosecutions.