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Chicago Police Department Supt. Garry McCarthy has recommended the firing of the off-duty officer who shot and killed unarmed Rekia Boyd in 2012.

Corey Morgan is a person of interest in the shooting death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee.

Officials in Chicago have released the dash-cam video footage of Laquan McDonald's shooting death at the hands of city police Officer Jason Van Dyke from October 2014. The video was released a day ahead of the court-ordered deadline and on the same day Van Dyke turned himself in to authorities.

Starbucks will open 15 new locations in low to middle income neighborhoods within the next year including Ferguson, Missouri.

Davis, who has been on the front lines of the Black Lives Matter movement for some time, understands that Jordan is just one story of many in America. For him, the most immediate change can come on Black Friday, the third anniversary of Jordan's death.

A choir comprised of men from Atlanta's Central Night Shelter are making their way to the nation's capital in December to perform at the White House Open House Holiday Celebration.

A Chicago woman, partly inspired by Spike Lee's anticipated and controversial film Chiraq, has decided to curb gang and gun violence in her community by implementing a sex strike until the killings end.

In I-am-sad-to-even-have-to-write-about-this-today reporting, a Kenyan blogger wrote a post about how natural hair is ugly.

A Bronx woman who stabbed her "childhood friend" repeatedly before cutting the pregnant woman's baby from her womb told police she acted in self defense. Police found that her account of the tragic murder was, in fact, a lie.

Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted a graphic with inaccurate statistics about 2015 murder rates in the United States.

Samuel DuBose's 18-year-old daughter was named the head of his estate Thursday ahead of a possible multimillion dollar wrongful death settlement the family may receive after their father was fatally shot by a University of Cincinnati police officer.

At the dedication for The Stuart House, Viola Davis shared the lasting and traumatic impact a sexual assault has had on her younger sister.