A philanthropy group affiliated with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation said it is offering support to an Arizona family after a confrontation with police in Phoenix last month following an alleged shoplifting incident.
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — In Benton Harbor, a small city beside Lake Michigan, the high school binds generations and strangers. This is a place where basketball games are a highlight of the social calendar, where signs celebrating state championships are placed at the edge of city limits, where…
An African-American Boeing employee has filed a federal lawsuit against the aviation company alleging racial discrimination after he said his co-workers hung a noose over his desk.
INDIANAPOLIS — A police officer fatally shot a Black man in South Bend, Indiana, leading Mayor Pete Buttigieg to return home early from a presidential campaign trip to address the public and reach out to community members.
RICHMOND, Va. — The first thing white people did after Nat Turner's violent slave insurrection in 1831 was round up more than 120 Black people and kill them.
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ST. LOUIS — The gunfire that has long haunted St. Louis streets has taken an even more disturbing turn, with a rash of shootings involving children that has left the city’s police chief angered and frustrated by the lack of cooperation of witnesses.
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Simmering tensions over a deadly police-involved shooting last year may have sent emotions boiling over this week in Memphis, fueling on Wednesday night’s melee between police and residents that left dozens injured.
Shortly after Brian Pope lost his job as security coordinator for the Houston Texans in May, he found out that "several players made the comment that 'they are trying to get rid of all the brothers,'" he said.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Court documents say a Black elementary student endured months of racial taunts in New Mexico and was called a "snitch" when he reported the verbal abuse.
WOODS CROSS, Utah — Activists are planning to protest at a police agency in northern Utah after learning an officer who pulled his gun on a 10-year-old child will continue to work.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police appealed for calm in a tense Memphis neighborhood Thursday where about 35 officers were injured by a rock-throwing crowd following a Black man’s shooting death by U.S. marshals on a fugitive task force.
WASHINGTON — Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said on Thursday she has not ruled out running for another political office.
DALLAS — A 33-year-old man has been arrested in the slayings of three women in Dallas, including a transgender woman whose death brought nationwide attention, police said Wednesday.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Armed officers and an angry crowd faced off after a Tennessee man was fatally shot by U.S. Marshals in a working-class Memphis neighborhood.
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