Black lives matter

Another disturbing video of police violence shows Detroit officers beating an African-American man during a traffic stop after he ran a red light on January 28.…

A father of one was shot and killed by police officers outside of Atlanta when they tried to serve him an arrest warrant. Nicholas Taft…

Taking a page from the FBI’s COINTELPRO program of the 1960s, “intelligence analysts” from Mall of America in Bloomington, Minneapolis set up a fake Facebook account to…

Keep checking this page through 11:59 p.m. on Saturday for photos and Tweets from #BLM247. Why? As the people from  Black Lives Matter said in…

I’m no longer certain what’s more taxing: Having to write about yet another unarmed Black person experiencing excessive, brutal force from law enforcement, or having…

Because it is a social construct, race can often be a complicated matter. However, racism – notably, as it works in America – is a…

The story: all too familiar. The aftermath: taking it to the streets. Late Friday evening, protests erupted in Madison, Wisconsin after an unarmed black teen…

The U.S. Department of Justice is calling the police department in Ferguson, Missouri for their activities that smacked of racial bias. Click the media player below to listen to the latest on this story. DOJ ON FERGUSON PD’S RACIAL BIAS 030215 FM WEB #BlackLivesMatter ###(@1067wtlc)### kimwellsmedia 030215 Follow me on Twitter @kwellscomm.

  African-American communities throughout the country have long been plagued by police brutality. The deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Ezell Ford (pictured) last…

A “Hands Up” walkout of Congressional staffers Thursday on Capitol Hill was only the beginning of what is shaping up to be several days of planned…

The movement #BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer George Zimmerman was acquitted for his crime, and the slain 17-year old was posthumously placed on…

For a few weeks now, I and presumably other writers like me, have been asked to brace ourselves for this moment and to have our…