Police Brutality

  WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On Saturday, thousands of Americans across the country registered their objection to police officers not being held accountable after killing unarmed…

CLEVELAND (AP) — The uncle of a 12-year-old boy who had a pellet gun when he was shot by a Cleveland police officer told mourners…

As protests broke out across the nation in the wake of the Nov. 24 decision by a grand jury to not prosecute the Ferguson, Mo.,…

*If as likely the St. Louis County Grand Jury refuses to indict Ferguson cop Darren Wilson for slaying Michael Brown it won’t be solely because of a weak, ineffectual,  half-hearted, and highly selective presentation of evidence by the County prosecutor. It won’t be because of massive counter pressure from Ferguson police and city officials, and […]

Another unarmed African American teen near Ferguson, Mo., was fatally shot by a police officer who witnesses say fired off more than 16 rounds...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A few thousand people crammed a suburban St. Louis street Sunday night at a vigil for an unarmed black man shot…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A congresswoman said Wednesday that video of a California Highway Patrol officer repeatedly punching a woman he had pinned on the…

  Surely, there’s no little historical irony in the fact that two events occurred last week that were reminders that as far as...

Rev. Charles Williams II (center), President of NAN’s Detroit Chapter, speaking to reporters about the Tasering of Debra Pernell-Simmons, Vice-President of the Mississippi Chapter of NAN, by the Adams County Sheriff’s Department. The Mississippi Chapter of the National Action Network (NAN), community leaders and local clergy in Natchez, Mississippi ...

By FREDDIE ALLEN (NNPA Washington Correspondent)WASHINGTON (NNPA) – It was a telephone call that Tracy Martin, father of the 17-year-old African-American killed in Sanford,...