Police accountability and systemic racism are front and center again this week with at least three black males killed by police in the last seven days; most recently in Charlotte, North Carolina. This comes...
In Florida this week, a North Miami police officer shot a black man — lying flat on his back on the ground with his hands in the air. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download...
In the wake of the the police killings of two black men and the sniper attack that killed five Dallas area police officers last week, Black Lives Matter demonstrations swept the country. FSRN’s Lena...
Black Lives Matters protesters are vowing to take their demonstrations into the new year, saying police shootings of unarmed civilians continue with little progress toward police accountability. Policing scandals have fueled demands that Chicago...
Download Audio Newsbreak: Cleveland officials announce no charges to be files in the police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. There is something shattering about the death, the killing, of a child. When a child...
The officers responsible for the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice will not face any criminal charges for their actions after a Cuyahoga County grand jury handed down a no-bill decision today. Rice was shot...
While colored-only bathroom signs are relics and being black no longer means that you have to sit at the back of the bus, African-American students at colleges throughout the U.S. say that in 2015...
For more than a month, hundreds of people have been sleeping in the open after they were forcefully evicted from their homes in an impoverished neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria. Such evictions are common in...
A nationwide group of law enforcement officials issued a call this week to slash the enormous prison population in the United States. The coalition, Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration, includes 130...
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a slew of progressive bills into a law this month, from climate change to pay equity to assisted suicide. One of the most contentious bills strengthened the state’s...
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