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Below is an original poem I wrote after my childhood friend, Naomi Clyburn, was murdered in my hometown.

Yesterday we told you about the shooting of 17 year-old Jordan Davis, who was gunned down in an SUV by 45 year-old Michael Dunn after an argument about loud music. Dunn’s attorney says this case is nothing like Trayvon Martin, and that Dunn is no vigilante. What do you think?

A clear and blatant case of police brutality from 2007 has resulted in a $850,000 settlement for the victim, and has once again lifted the veil on the shady, corrupt tactics utilized by the CPD to protect their own. How do we protect ourselves against police corruption and brutality?

Terrence Williams, who was convicted of first-degree murder, will no longer be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday due to a Philadelphia judge’s decision. His execution has been halted based on evidence that, as a teenager, Williams had been sexually abused by his victim, Amos Norwood.

Honestly, I have wanted to speak on Rape Culture for a while, but I have remained hesitant for a long time, quite simply because I am a man. The privilege of being a man and talking about such a sensitive subject, from a position of power is one that I, even now, am not entirely […]

According to forensic experts, no traces of Trayvon Martin’s DNA were found on the handgun used to take his life. This evidence could potential call into question Zimmerman’s assertion that he fired the fatal shot after Martin reached for his weapon.

William Balfour – the man convicted for murdering Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew – has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences, plus 120 years.

NC Republicans overrode Dem. Governor Beverley Perdue’s vetoe of a law that would make it more difficult for death row prisoners to use evidence of racial bias when challenging their sentences.

The NYPD police officer that shot and killed unarmed teenager Ramarley Graham this past February has been indicted on manslaughter charges. Officers assumed incorrectly that Graham was carrying a gun, chased him into his home, and shot him in front of his family.

The endless downward spiral of Lauryn Hill continues; L-Boogie is now in the crosshairs of the IRS; accused of tax evasion. If convicted, homegirl faces a $300,000 fine and significant time in prison. Where in the bloody hell did it all go so very, very wrong?

A new registry jointly compiled by the University of Michigan and Northwestern University Law Schools conveys that over 2,000 prisoners have been wrongly convicted of serious crimes since 1989. Tellingly, more than half of them are black.

According to WTFV, the FBI may charge George Zimmerman with a hate crime in relation to the shooting death of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin. Dederal hate crime charges carry a maximum penalty of death, if convicted. Should Zimmerman be charged with a hate crime?