Jesse Williams
The star of Grey’s Anatomy has been an outspoken advocate for social justice and racial equality. He has been an unflinching supporter of the protests surrounding the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. In one of many interviews Williams has given on these topics, he passionately told CNN: Continue reading
A threatening letter that disparages black police officers has been found stuffed in mailboxes at a police department.
State police are investigating the unsigned letter, which is on Bridgeport Police Department letterhead and begins and ends with the term “white power,” city officials said Wednesday. Black officers said it was at least the third hate-filled message to circulate within the police department over the past year. Continue reading
Eric Garner’s daughter, Erica Garner, 24, created a foundation, the Garner Way Foundation in honor of her father.
STATEN ISLAND — Erica Garner set up a foundation in honor of her father, Eric Garner, according to a statement released Tuesday.
The Garner Way Foundation is one of a handful of fundraising sites Garner family members have set up. There were more than a dozen other sites set up on various crowdfunding sites that family members said they were not aware of. Continue reading
QUEENS — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Tuesday that “the unequal nature of the relationship” between African Americans and police “must not be denied,” and that “many of the worst parts of Black history would have been impossible without police,” including slavery. Continue reading
George Zimmerman answers questions from a Seminole circuit judge in Sanford, Fla., last November. Joe Burbank/AP
Federal authorities have decided to close an investigation of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin back in 2012.
The killing sparked protests and a national conversation on race. Zimmerman, who is white, was acquitted of murder of the unarmed black teenager by a Florida jury, but federal prosecutors were weighing whether to bring hate crime charges against Zimmerman. Continue reading
ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – The St. Louis County NAACP hosted its 11th annual Rosa Parks “observance day” celebration Sunday. The event honors the civil rights hero. This year’s keynote speaker was attorney Pamela Meanes, President of the National Bar Association. Continue reading
Natalie Byfield
In 2014, the Central Park Five officially stopped being infamous: New York City settled the group’s wrongful conviction lawsuit for $40 million. In some ways, the Central Park Five reached the status of folk legend: their story of wrongful conviction and imprisonment for the 1989 rape of an Upper East Side white woman known as the Central Park jogger stands now as a cautionary tale about what can happen to kids from Black and Latino communities at the hands of the police and other elements of the criminal justice system. Continue reading
By Susanne Cervenka
It wasn’t until years later that Collins, the son of Malcolm’s sister, Ella Little Collins, would learn what his uncle was thinking: “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us.”
Malcolm X, the African-American nationalist leader and onetime minister of the Nation of Islam who was assassinated 50 years ago Feb. 21, inspired countless people with the frank and uncompromising way he spoke about race relations in America. And much of what he said about the experiences of black Americans remains true today, experts say. Continue reading
It all started as a routine traffic stop, but then a Ferguson, Missouri police officer saw that the activists who were “Cop Watching” them had an “Anonymous” mask… the iconic and unmistakably the symbol of the notorious “hacktivist” movement. Continue reading
Pasco, Wash., residents, from left foreground to right, Angel Morgan, 5, and his brother Jose Morgan, 6, as well as Alex Gonzalez, 4, and his brother Angel Gonzalez, 8, gather around a candlelit vigil Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, in memory of Antonio Zambrano-Montes who was fatally shot by police after a confrontation on Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Tri-City Herald, Sarah Gordon) LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL RADIO OUT KONA
PASCO, WASH. (AP) – The rallying cry in Ferguson, Missouri, was “Hands up, don’t shoot!” In New York, it was “I can’t breathe!” In Pasco these days, the protest signs say things like “It was just a rock!!!”
In a case with unmistakable echoes of Ferguson and New York, demonstrators have gathered every day during the past week in front of City Hall to demand answers in the deadly police shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, a 35-year-old Mexican immigrant and former orchard worker who authorities say was throwing rocks at officers. Continue reading
Ferguson Is Palestine 