Eddie Irizarry, 27, was fatally shot by Philadelphia police on August 14, 2023. (Photo: Eddie Irizarry/Facebook)
by Jordan Hyatt, Drexel University
Some Philadelphia residents are calling...
by Denise A. Herd, University of California, Berkeley
As the video goes public of Black police officers in Memphis beating Tyre Nichols to death, it...
by Wendelin Hume, University of North Dakota
No one knows just how many Indigenous girls or women go missing each year.
There are estimates. In 2019,...
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier
When Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, used the term “alternative facts,” all of her political opponents...
Today, the American Civil Liberties Union released “The Other Epidemic: Fatal Police Shootings in the Time of COVID-19.” The report finds fatal shootings by...
Roy Middleton (pictured), a 60-year-old African-American man in Western Florida, is recovering from wounds, after police shot him in front of his home last Saturday. Middleton was reportedly looking for a cigarette inside his mother’s parked car — which sat in his driveway — when county officers opened fired on him even though he reportedly did not provoke them. The shooting occurred in the town of Warrington, a small predominantly White town just six miles from Pensacola and the Alabama state line, The shooting reportedly happened early Saturday morning, after Escambia County sheriff deputies were responding to a 911 call of a neighbor who saw Middleton looking around in the car. When the police arrived to respond to the burglary call, they approached Middleton and demanded he remove himself from the vehicle with his hands raised, according to his account. Middleton told the Pensacola News Journal[2] th ...
