The soldiers waited until it was dark. They took down cctv cameras. They turned off street lights. Then they started shooting, automatic gunfire ringing out late into the night. Their targets were young…
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Protests calling for an end to police brutality in the West African country of Nigeria turned deadly this week after soldiers in Lagos opened fire on demonstrators on Tuesday, killing…
https://youtu.be/PSYNsNsg0X4 Presented in association with American Shakespeare Center In this “post-postracial” world that too often conveniently equates blackness with race—and, in so doing, perpetuates the false notion that white people are…
More than 35 years after his body was discovered, a murder victim in Florida was successfully identified by police because of a belt buckle his family member recognized. William Ernest…
Black women are almost twice as likely to experience a stillbirth as white women, yet it’s rare we hear Black women speak out about their loss. Here, one woman shares…
As threats to disrupt Election Day grow, some members of a far-right Trump superfan group are boasting about securing positions as polling station managers and supervisors while dozens of them…
The statement came after a judge ordered records in the proceedings released to show if "publicly elected officials are being honest." A grand juror who heard evidence in the Breonna…
Ruth Brandspiegel heard a familiar name called out in a Yom Kippur service held via Zoom, which turned out to be a close friend she met at a displaced persons…
On the same day a judge granted a grand juror in the Breonna Taylor police-shooting case the right to speak about the deliberations, the juror, who is still anonymous, confirmed what…