Eric Garner

By Denise Dunbar Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), one of several congress members who threw up the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture on the house floor last week, used his time on the house floor last week  to remember Eric Garner. He recited a poem  using Garner’s last words “I can’t breathe” . The text of […]

Marist College and NBC News have released a poll that reveals a majority of White people (52 percent) believe that local police forces treat White…

A week after the demands of activists, the name of the officer who killed unarmed Black man, Rumain Brisbon has been released: Officer Mark Rine.…

Students at over 70 medical schools across the country are coming together to hold nationwide “die-ins” on Wednesday to protest grand jury decisions not indict…

President Obama is on some type of media tour where he’s addressing the killing for Michael Brown and Eric Garner and what they mean for…

While 2014 has been a particularly explosive year for the Black community and judicial system, the reality is, cops have been getting away with murder…

The Department of Justice has announced a new set of  rules to help curb racial profiling by federal law enforcement officials. These guidelines instruct federal law…

The federal government is taking broad new steps to ban profiling by law enforcement agencies, bolstering a 2003 policy that previously only addressed the consideration…

It’s been a week since a Staten Island grand jury decided not to convict the cop who killed Eric Garner, and racial tensions in the…

Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of Amadou Diallo remains frustrated that police brutality is still taking innocent, unarmed Black lives. In an interview with CNN on Monday, Diallo…