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Mothers take crime scene, use it as ‘street lesson’ for sons
Thursday night, 14-year-old Kevin Diaz was gunned down while walking to the store near his home in Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood. As he lie dead on the concrete, Christina Brown and her twin sister decided to take the tragedy, and use it to get through to their sons.
Baltimore Police hid toy guns in case ‘of a jam,’ in addition to other crimes
The police department in Baltimore should be tired of being the subject of news at this point. But yet again we find ourselves talking about the ways in which they are emblematic of the problems within law enforcement in this country. In what is sure to be only the latest scandal involving this city’s police […]
Muslim NYPD Officer Threatened With Hate Crime
Aml Elsokary has been a member of the NYPD for 11 years. But when she was out of uniform with her son in Brooklyn, that didn’t matter as she was threatened on the street. Elsokary had just dropped her son off in Brooklyn on Saturday night when he got into a confrontation with Christopher Nelson, […]
Black teen killed by white man who called him ‘another piece of trash off the street’
Racial tensions have been thick since the election of Donald Trump on November 8th. Those individuals who resent marginalized people seem emboldened by the prospects of Trump’s leadership. The shooting death of an unarmed Black teen on the East End of Charleston, West Virginia on Monday is yet another tragic case where racism and violence […]
Authorities To Consider Classifying White Supremacist Fatal Hit and Run of Black Teen As Hate Crime
Authorities in Oregon are considering whether or not a white supremacist running down a black teenager with his car in early August should officially be classified as a hate crime.
Klansman Who Bombed 16th Street Baptist Is Up For Parole in August
Thomas E. Blanton Jr., 86, was convicted in 2001 for the murder of four black girls after bombing the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL in 1963. The known member of the Ku Klux Klan will be eligible for parole before the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles this August, according to Alabama.com.
Heisman candidate Todd Gurley falsely accused of assault, video shows white male committed crime
It turns out that Georgia star running back and Heisman Award candidate Todd Gurley was wrongfully accused of assault at a campus bar early Sunday morning. Athens-Clarke County police confirmed that the puncher was actually a white man.
Transgender woman burned to death, murder investigated as a hate crime
The murder of a transgender woman who was burned to death in Florida is being investigated as a hate crime. The remains were found behind a vehicle rental facility at 2807 Fowler Street in Fort Myers on Thursday. Authorities have identified the remains as those of Yaz’min Shancez , 31.
Black and Dangerous: a list of times where whites blamed crime on a phantom black
It is dangerous to be black in America. Many of us can’t even walk down the street without getting racially profiled. If you’re a black man, the chances of you being blamed for a crime are magnified. Your Black World compiled a list called “10 Times a White Person Blamed Their Crime on a Phantom Black Person.” […]
Study: housing homeless cheaper than leaving them on the streets
According to a new study, it’s cheaper to give the homeless a permanent place to live than to let them live on the streets. The study, conducted by the University of North Carolina Charlotte, found that in its first year, Moore Place tenants saved $1.8 million in health care costs. The facility houses 85 chronically […]
Father dies while defending daughter during hate crime
A Chicago man died while defending his 15-year-old daughter from an alleged hate crime Wednesday. Each day, 59-year-old Michael Tingling would walk his daughter Masharah to school and be waiting for her to finish up when classes were over. When a man hurled racial epithets at them, Tingling pulled his daughter behind […]
Towson University’s ‘White Student Union’ to Begin Patrolling Campus to Fight ‘Black Crime Wave’
Towson University’s racist “White Student Union”has announced they’ll begin patrolling their campus to combat an alleged “black crime wave” on Towson’s campus. Something tells us this is not going to end well.