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In January, Officer Ruben De Los Santos was still on paid administrative leave despite the release of a video that showed him slamming a 15-year-old girl to the ground after a fight broke out before school one day. While De Los Santos resigned earlier this month, a North Carolina Grand Jury declined to press charges […]

John R.K. Howard and two other classmates were initially charged with sodomizing a disabled, Black teammate with a clothes hanger in 2015 in the small village of Dietrich, Idaho. The sexual assault charge against Howard was later dropped and he entered an “Alford plea,” meaning he maintained his innocence but concluded that the jury would […]

On February 17, 2005, New York City transit workers stumbled across two suspicious garbage bags beside the train tracks at the Nostrand Avenue stop in Brooklyn. The bags were filled with the remains of a dismembered 19-year-old queer Black man, Rashawn Brazell, who was supposed to meet with his mother for lunch that Valentine’s Day […]

Takiya Holmes was sitting in a parked car with her mother, aunt and younger brother when a stray bullet struck her in the head this past Saturday. Takiya never regained consciousness and was in critical condition at Comer Children’s Hospital. Despite her mother’s constant pleas, Takiya never woke up and died Tuesday morning. 

Cook County prosecutors decided to not press charges against Officer Robert Rialmo for shooting Qunitonio LeGrier, 19, and his neighbor Bettie Smith, 55, the day after Christmas in 2015. 

About a year ago, it was revealed that a teenager was masquerading as a doctor and actually sitting in on procedures in Florida. After being caught, Malachi Love-Robinson was charged with practicing medicine without a license, forgery and grand theft. It looks like the now 19-year-old can’t break his bad habits after being caught attempting to […]

The El Cajon, Calif. police officer who fatally shot Alfred Olango, who was unarmed and under clear mental distress, will not face criminal charges. 

Access to healthcare for women and transgender folks continues to come under fire in the United States in the name of religious freedom.

Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager’s time in court for killing Walter Scott is far from over. According to CBS News, a court ordered for him to be retried on March 1. 

We could all use some good news this holiday season especially when it comes to the young Nigerian women who were kidnapped and brutalized by Boko Haram in April 2014. In a bit of good news, a Black Austin, Texas-based philanthropist and investor is supporting 24 Chibok schoolgirls – 21 of whom escaped Boko Haram – […]

For a lot of kids, the one bright spot in an afternoon of running errands is getting to play the demo version of video games in the electronics section of a store. But this moment of bliss was often followed by the sad realization that you’d have to leave and go home soon, most likely without […]

The former director of a West Virginia non-profit organization was removed from her position after she made a Facebook post calling First Lady Michelle Obama an “ape in heels.” This was one of countless racist incidents that followed President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in November. It appears that the move to remove Pamela Ramsey Taylor from […]