The police officers who ordered their police canine to attack a Black man in Sheffield, Alabama, in 2021 are being sued, according to a lawsuit obtained by Atlanta Black Star. Marvin Eugene Long, a 53-year-old Black man and disabled veteran, has filed a lawsuit against […]
The mother of a 19-year-old college student who died after being shot by an Uber driver last year in South Florida was anguished to learn last week that the shooter won’t be prosecuted due to the state’s stand-your-ground protections. Christopher Bernadel shot Miles McGlashan on […]
A bizarre call to the police over a strange scene of some hair sticking out of a woman’s trunk ended in a funny encounter for one woman in Ohio last month. Toria Townsend said while she was driving home on June 13 from a hair […]
Source: Spencer Platt / Getty (Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON – This August, Martin Luther King, III, Andrea Waters King, and Rev. Al Sharpton will participate in events marking the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. A continuation, not commemoration, of Dr. Martin Luther King, […]
17-yr-old Nahel Merzouk was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop / via Twitter *Paris, France (CNN) — A tense atmosphere lingered in Nanterre on Saturday following the funeral of a 17-year-old French teenager, Nahel Merzouk, who was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop in […]
Mamie Marie Francois – screenshot *NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — Mamie Marie Francois, the Queen of Bourbon Street, was doing what she loves a little after 12 a.m. Saturday morning (06-18-23). She was dancing to music and riding her famous bike when things took a turn for […]
