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Three Pittsburgh police officers are currently on trial for allegedly beating and fabricating reasons for arresting 20 year-old Jordan Miles in January of 2010. Is this how you “serve and protect” the community?

14 year-old Kardin Ulysse is now blind in one eye after a brutal, homophobic assault by bullies in the cafeteria of Roy H. Mann Junior High School in Brooklyn. His family plans to sue the city for $16 million, and want his attackers to face hate crime charges.

24-year old transgender woman Cece McDonald must serve her three-year sentence in a male prison.

McDonald, who stabbed a white man who was part of a group that verbally and physical assaulted her, pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges. Won’t this put her life in danger?

(I Learned By Watching You) I. Last week, I submitted a news story to the BYP concerning yet another case of bullying. Joel Morales, a 12-year-old from East Harlem, hanged himself because he had grown tired of relentless harassment from other students. I forwarded the story just a few weeks after having sent an update regarding the FAMU […]

Reality TV show drama has been in the news a lot lately. Petitions urging the networks that produce these shows to reconsider have gained a lot of traction. The masses are finally growing disgusted with the petty, sometimes violent behavior of reality TV stars. While it seems many are finally ready to dismiss the violent […]

NYPD officers are caught on tape brutally beating a 19 year-old Bronx resident for no apparent reason. Is this just another example of New York’s racist, oppressive “Stop and Frisk Program” at work?

Video footage of a brutal beating of a young black male at the hands of Houston police officers has community members outraged. Though he’d clearly surrendered, four police officers are caught on tape relentlessly punching and kicking 18 year-old Chad Holley.

Yesterday, thirteen people were criminally charged in the homicide of former Florida A&M University (FAMU) drum major, Robert Champion. Champion’s family was hoping for more serious charges. What do you think; were the charges too lax?

According to Loop 21, abused wife and mother Marissa Alexander has been denied a new trial, and thus still faces 20 years in prison. Alexander stood her ground against an abusive husband. But unlike George Zimmerman, the “Stand Your Ground” law didn’t protect her.

Cece McDonald is a black transgender woman currently on trial for 2nd degree murder for allegedly killing a man in self-defense after being verbally and physically assaulted. Supporters say she is being unjustly punished due to racism and bias against transgendered people.

Two Jewish brothers – Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim – stand accused of beating a black teenager while “patrolling” their Baltimore neighborhood will begin today. The story has drawn comparisons to the Trayvon Martin case.

The “Stand Your Ground” law was used to justify the decision of Sanford Police to let George Zimmerman free without charge.But why didn’t it protect Marissa Alexander, a wife and mother of three who stood her ground against an abusive husband, and now faces 20 years in prison?