‘Black boys are being hunted’: Advocates demand changes to police pursuit policy after unarmed teen shot in Chicago
CHICAGO—Community advocates are demanding police policy changes after video footage was released showing an unarmed Black teenager being shot by a Chicago police officer. Footage...
Targeted, shot, killed while running away Officers keep shooting and killing fleeing Blacks, and laws prohibiting these actions don’t matter
NEWS ANALYSIS The list is long, and the stories are alarming, with police shooting, killing or maiming unarmed Black people running away from officers. Though...
New Black medical schools coming to HBCUs
by Nisa Islam Muhammad Staff Writer @nisaislam Morgan State University in Baltimore and Xavier University in New Orleans are planning to open medical schools. These historically...
AIPAC and the end of democracy: Money, power and picking U.S. lawmakers who will support, defend Israel’s interests.
NEWS ANALYSIS Donna Edwards seemed headed to an easy victory in the primary for Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, a predominantly Black suburb of Washington, D.C.,...
Muslim restaurant collaborative sets up shop in New Jersey
WILLINGBORO, New Jersey—John Harmon, founder, president, and CEO of the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, said his message to perspective Black...
Islam comes when everything else has failed: Student Minister Dr. Wesley Muhammad delivers powerful message at Mosque Maryam
Black America is under attack spiritually, mentally, psychologically, and physically—but the Nation of Islam has the solution to Black survival. The Teachings of the...
Congressional hearings provide clear evidence of a changing of worlds
NEWS ANALYSIS The eighth hearing investigating the January 6th insurrection has come and gone, but recent data reflecting partisan differences between liberals and conservatives show...
Task force hopes to offer answers, sense of peace to loved ones of missing, murdered Black females
CHICAGO—Miracle Boyd joined dozens of others recently for a march in the summer heat down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive shouting the names of...
Officer fatally shoots Black man running away
LOS ANGELES—Southern California police shot and killed a Black man as he ran away from them while allegedly holding a gun, video showed. The...
‘A total execution’: Kansas City activists continue yearlong fight for justice for Malcolm Johnson
It has been over one year since Malcolm Johnson, a 31-year-old Black man, died after a fatal police encounter, but the investigation into his...