Just weeks after a worker reportedly helped two inmates escape from an upstate New York prison, a similar case allegedly recently occurred in North Carolina.…
Imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal is in intensive care for treatment of diabetes and is “not doing well,” his family said Tuesday,…
A judge in Sandy Springs, Ga. last week sentenced a sanitation worker to 30 days behind bars for, well, starting work too early, according to…
A Mississippi Republican judge has been indicted on an assault charge after striking a mentally disabled man and hurling racial slurs at him last spring…
Fresh off of her success from ‘Selma,’ director Ava DuVernay is on to her next project. It’s reported that the Los Angeles-bred director will direct…
When it comes to issues concerning race in America, the country isn’t only divided racially, but politically as well. A new poll released by Washington…
Defense Attorney Robbin Shipp joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss her new book “Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the…
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) announced tthe Justice Department’s aims in collecting data on stops and arrests in order to combat racial bias…
A Black judge who was to oversee the Renisha McBride murder case has been asked to step down, according to report on The Huffington Post.…
The family of Leon Ford Jr. has been seeking justice after police cornered the teen on a dark Pittsburgh street after a routine traffic stop…
Today, Attorney General Eric Holder addressed overcrowding in the prison system and called for substantial changes to our nation’s criminal justice system, including scaling back mandatory minimums and the use of harsh sentences for some drug-related crimes. “It’s clear – as we come together today – that too many Americans go to too many prisons […]
Judges in Alabama are using their power, ignoring juries and imposing the death penalty on defendants who kill white victims, according to a recent report by the Equal Justice Initiative. Among other findings, the report examines judicial overrides — a little known practice that allows judges to overturn jury-decisions in death penalty cases. From the […]
