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Trigger Warning: This story contains descriptions of abortion. Last Friday, the Indiana Court of Appeals dismissed feticide charges against Purvi Patel, a woman accused of self-inducing an abortion. In 2013, Patel had ingested abortion pills to terminate her pregnancy and checked into a hospital due to an inordinate amount of bleeding. She told the staff […]

This story has been told multiple times now, with the only changes being the name of the officer walking away free and the total number of others that have done the same. The fourth officer involved in the death of Freddie Gray has gone to trial. Three of them have been acquitted while one resulted […]

Caesar Goodson, Jr., the officer who was given the most serious charges related to Freddie Gray’s death, was acquitted on all charges by a Baltimore judge this past Thursday after an eight-day bench trial, according to the Baltimore Sun. Goodson elected to have a bench trial to face his charges with Gray’s death in police custody. […]

One of the things that lingers most when people pass away is the unknown. What were they thinking? Did they know how loved they were? What would they have done differently? But some aren’t even fortunate enough to get the answer as to what happened when their loved one passed away, much like the family […]

After video was released of a three-year-old falling into a gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo, leading to the 17-year-old Silverback gorilla being shot and killed by zookeepers, no one truly knew what the next steps should be. Some called for the end of zoos while others demanded that the parents of the child be […]

Monday saw another disappointment for many in the Black community, as a police officer who involved in the murder of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody, was acquitted on four charges. This brought up questions about whether or not any of the six police officers who […]

About a year ago, in April 2015, a video shocked the masses when it showed what clearly appeared to be a police officer shooting a fleeing black man in the back and then planting a taser by his dead body. Michael Slager, the former South Carolina officer that was captured in the video shooting Walter Scott, […]

Responsibility for the Flint water crisis that sent poisoned water through the pipelines of tens of thousands of residents has been passed back and forth between local and state governments for months now. But, after investigation, criminal charges have been brought up against three men tied to the decisions that led to the tragedy. Mike Glasgow, Stephen Busch […]

There will be no charges brought against Matt Kenny, the officer responsible for shooting 19-year-old Tony Robinson. District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said that he believed the shooting was justified. Robinson’s family told a local news station that they are determining what further legal action to take. Local activist group, the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, has called […]

Lynching charges against Maile Hampton, a 20 year-old activist, have been dropped according to the Guardian. The Sacramento, Ca. native was charged with lynching during a Black Lives Matter protest for pulling a fellow activist away from a police officer. She was charged under an archaic 1933 California law that defines lynching as, “The taking by […]

From ABC News: While the public waits for a Justice Department announcement over two separate investigations spurred by the summer shooting of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, the department is going to first announce its findings in the killing of Trayvon Martin. ABC News has learned Martin’s family will soon be notified that the Justice Department will not be […]

The New York Times reports that Justice Department prosecutors are expected to recommend that no civil rights charges be brought against Darren Wilson. Darren Wilson, a former police officer  in Ferguson, MO, shot and killed Michael Brown in August. No criminal charges were brought against him either.