injustice

Texas sees surge in number of disenfranchised voters

Alabama school officials hire former FBI agent to spy on black students

University cancels invitation to African journalists due to Ebola fears

West Virginia columnist fired after referring to Mike Brown as an ‘animal’

Charges re-filed against mother who left kids in car for job interview

Birmingham man receives just $1,000 from $460,000 police brutality settlement

Georgia man sentenced to 20 years in prison for stealing iPod

Despite decline in black student suspension, huge discrepancies remain high in Oakland schools

Study: Charter schools have made segregation worse in Chicago

Report: black males are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than whites

Supreme Court approves some of the worst voting restrictions in the country

Involuntary manslaughter charge dropped against cop who killed 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones

Cop fatally shoots man in own driveway, charges filed against officer

Man facing death penalty after shooting police who raided home

‘Django’ actress handcuffed, accused of prostitution after kissing white husband

Video: activist Ty Turner arrested for distributing voting rights leaflets

Video: St. Paul police allegedly Taser, arrest man for ‘sitting while black’

The price of blackness in America

Op-ed: America Is Not For Black People

NYPD report: ‘Eric Garner was not in great distress’

Report: black men no better off than they were in 1970s

After 17 years behind bars, wrongfully convicted man freed

Police chief resigns with clean record despite use of racial slur

After 8 years, inmates still waiting for trial

Report: Florida charges more kids as adults than any other state, black youth disproportionately affected

Man forced to rap for cops receives settlement

Man blows 0.0 on Breathalyzer, still arrested for drunk driving

Newspaper in Uganda lists ‘200 Top Homos’

Family says Oklahoma police beat man to death in front of them

Transgender teen defending herself during school fight faces criminal charges

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