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Sandra Bland’s death in police custody was one of the brightest sparks that lit the Black Lives Matter movement and the #SayHerName campaign. While police officials maintain their stance that her death was a suicide, new information appears to reveal some holes in their story.

Brian Encinia, the officer who pulled Sandra Bland over in 2015, was the only one brought up on charges in connection to her arrest and eventual death in police custody. He faced a charge of perjury after giving false information as to why he took her out of her car that day. He claimed it […]

By Kevin Clay The culture of physical and emotional abuse, blackmailing, and the intellectual sabotage of students recently uncovered at the T.M. Landry school in Louisiana by the New York Times, atop what was previously a narrative of “Black student exceptionalism,” positions the school at the nexus of much larger and pervasive problems in the way […]

Six years ago, Florida’s Biscayne Police Department had become so adept at solving burglaries that the local word was all it took for them to solve cases was the stroke of a pen. Claiming a 100% clearance on all burglary cases, the Police Chief at the time, Raimundo Atesaino, even went on record saying at […]

A federal investigation in Miami, Florida is examining several cases against Biscayne Park police officers who are accused of framing innocent people. The investigation took a sharp turn when a police officer admitted he falsified arrest warrants for two Black men at the behest of his police chief.

According to a recent report released by the California State Auditor on Thursday, nearly 40 female prison inmates in California were sterilized illegally. Of the 144 inmates who underwent tubal ligations between 2005 and 2013, one-third were performed without lawful consent.