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According to the Houston Chronicle, a week-long manhunt for the killer of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes has drawn to a conspicuous close as one of the men police say was involved confessed while in police custody. 20-year-old Eric Black Jr. Black described the killing to police officers as a “mistake” and told them that Barnes was […]

After a 7-year-old Black girl, Jazmine Barnes, was fatally gunned down outside a Houston Walmart, police officials released video of the gunman driving a red pick up truck and are now asking the public to report any potential leads.

A group of activists who stopped traffic ahead of the Dallas Cowboys game to protest police violence on Sunday night were arrested and hit with a misdemeanor obstructing traffic charge. The group, dubbed the Dallas 9, was originally part of a larger demonstration against recent episodes of police brutality in the Dallas area.

Last week, a white Dallas police officer, 30-year-old Amber Guyger, fatally shot her Black neighbor, 26-year-old Botham Jean, in his own apartment. She later claimed she had been drunk, mistook the apartment as her own, and killed Jean thinking he was the intruder. As the fatal incident reignites a conversation on police brutality and Colin […]

The Dallas police officer who killed a Black man after she says she mistook it for her own has finally been identified. Amber Guyger had her name released to the public on Saturday when she was charged with misdemeanor manslaughter after shooting and killing 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean, a native of St. Lucia who later died at […]

Charges have been dropped against a Black Texas student who was arrested by police officers while mowing lawns. Marlin Gipson, 20, was originally charged with failure to identify to the police and evading arrest after an officer stopped him while he was handing out business cards for his lawn care service. A friend of Gipson […]

Darius Smith, 15, was fatally shot by an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer in California who claims the teen was trying to rob him. The officer told authorities he fired in self-defense as Smith and two 14-year-olds – one of which was Smith’s cousin – tried to rob him at gunpoint after exiting […]

A Texas police chief has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into an arrest of a black beauty pageant contestant/law intern. Carmen S. Ponder, Miss Black Texas USA U.S. Ambassador 2016 and an intern with the Hunt County, Texas, District Attorney’s Office, claims that she was arrested by Police Chief Kerry Crews and called […]

On Tuesday, the Balch Springs police officer who fatally shot Jordan Edwards was fired. Police Chief Jonathan Haber announced the officer’s status was changed after he was placed on administrative leave following the shooting on Saturday, according to CNN. 

Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber’s story about  Jordan Edwards’ death has changed with new information. While Haber initially told the press that an officer fired into the car full of teenagers because it was driving in an “aggressive manner,” that wasn’t truly the case. The New York Times reports that the car Edwards was riding […]

Jordan Edwards, 15, was killed in a Dallas-Forth Worth suburb after a police officer shot into a car full of teenagers on Saturday night.

Decade after Decatur, Racial Discipline Gap Widens John O’Connor, Associated Press, November 22, 2009 Lawmakers from Minority Districts Appointing Few to Service Academies Brian Witte, Associated Press, November 22, 2009 School Board Member: Race a Legitimate Issue in Curriculum Battle Marc Freeman, Sun Sentinel, November 21, 2009 FBI reopens 1962 slaying of Macon black youth […]