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Chicago’s Black Press Urges Mayor to Fire Officers With Oath Keepers Ties

By Erick Johnson of The Chicago Crusader Publishers and owners of Chicago’s Black media organizations have banded together, urging Mayor Brandon Johnson to keep his...

Black Tennessee Lawmakers Expelled for Gun Violence Demonstration Despite Broad Support

Tennessee State Representatives Justin Jones, Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson call or gun reform in wake of Nashville school shooting Tennessee GOP lawmakers on Thursday,...

R. Kelly was aided by a network of complicity – common in workplace abuse – that enabled crimes to go on for decades

by Peggy Cunningham, Dalhousie University and Minette Drumwright, University of Texas at Austin R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison on June 29,...

Convicted Murderer, Jason Van Dyke, now a Free Man

Disgraced former Chicago Police Officer and convicted murderer, Jason Van Dyke was released from prison today. After serving less than half of his 81-month...

Civil Rights trailblazer Claudette Colvin has juvenile record expunged

Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old when she stood up to segregation on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The brave feat in 1955...

Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense

by Ronald Sullivan, Harvard Law School In a two-week trial that reignited debate over self-defense laws across the nation, a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse...

Family of Darian Hudson seeks answers four years after her disappearance

The family of Darian Hudson continues their search of the missing then-23-year-old who went missing four years ago on October 22, 2017.Hudson's family says...

Reggie Turner new president of the American Bar Association

The American Bar Association is proud to share the news that Reginald Turner has officially assumed the role of President of the American Bar...

Making most of second chance: Troy Delone leaves prison behind

Troy Delone was not always an upstanding citizen. His extracurricular street activities landed him in the country’s largest maximum-security prison, Angola State Penitentiary in...

The new face of poverty and the mass incarceration of America’s children

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Part Two of the comprehensive Children’s Defense Fund’s The State of America’s Children 2021. The number of...

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