A man of Black and Filipino descent who was killed by his neighbor in a rural Missouri trailer park has been ruled as justifiable in a coroner’s inquest. Despite the ruling, Justin King’s family disputes the shooter’s version of events, says the inquest process was […]
A white Kentucky high school teacher was fired after being captured on film fighting a Black student. An investigation discovered he ‘escalated the situation when he told the teenager, who is a gunshot victim, he was ‘just another Black boy who got shot.’ William Bennett […]
Dominick Black looks at a group photograph including himself, Kyle Rittenhouse and others, held by Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger during Rittenhouse’s trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 2, 2021, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. | Source: Pool / Getty Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha killer-turned-white-right-hero and […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in the 1963 Alabama church bombing died Sunday. She was 93. Maxine McNair’s family announced her death in a press release. A cause of death was not given. McNair’s […]
On April 11, former Minnesota Officer Kim Potter shot and killed Daunte Wright. Since then, it’s been a mystery how a 26-year police veteran could mistake her gun for a taser. On Monday, the jury finally had to grapple with that. While the first few days focused […]
This week the United States Justice Department closed its investigation into the death of Emmett Till. Despite finding no new evidence to bring new charges in the 14-year-old’s 1955 lynching, the FBI’s Cold Case Initiative continues to investigate other cold-case crimes with racial bias implications from the […]