City residents in Ferguson, Missouri will head to the polls on Tuesday for the first election since 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed in a police shooting that sparked a string of local protests and national outrage.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released a statement denouncing the man charged with shooting two St. Louis police officers during a protest rally in Ferguson, Missouri last week.
Ferguson, Mo. Mayor James Knowles is coming under heavy fire to step down from his post in the wake of a scathing new Department of Justice report that finds the city officials routinely allowed for lax police oversight, racial profiling and profit-driven court practices where black and minority citizens were concerned.
President Barack Obama admits he suspects many of the racist practices a Department of Justice investigation found the Ferguson, Mo. police department to be guilty of are not just isolated incidents.
Scandal front woman Shonda Rhimes tackled the hot button issue of the rising deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of law enforcement in a recent episode of the hit TV show.
Along with officially closing the federal investigation of the police shooting of Michael Brown on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice released a report that finds evidence that the Ferguson police department has engaged in discriminatory practices targeting African Americans.
The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to release a report as early as this week criticizing the police department in Ferguson, Missouri for disproportionately targeting, ticketing and arresting African-Americans.
Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder admits he suspects some of the struggles he has had with the Republican lawmakers over his more than six-years as the nation's top law enforcement officer were at least partly driven by race.
Well-known New York Times reporter and TV commentator Charles Blow is railing against law enforcement after his son was stopped at gun-point about a burglary by Yale University campus police while returning to his dorm room from the library.
Sources say that federal civil-rights charges will not be filed against former Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager who died in Ferguson, Missouri last August.
A police department neat St. Louis, Missouri is publicly apologizing to a black college student, who was severely beaten by officers after they wrongfully accused him of a crime.
Thousands of residents of the St. Louis area took to the streets in protest of the killing of Michael Brown Monday, just hours after black members of Congress congregated in nearby churches to peacefully mark and honor the birth and vision of Martin Luther King.
Kendrick Lamar’s recent interview with Billboard about his thoughts on law enforcement in the black community and the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown has a lot of rappers and social media users—-namely Azealia Banks and Kid Cudi—-in uproar.
A member of the grand jury for the Ferguson case sued the county prosecutor Monday, claiming that the public's impression of the grand jury's work was "not entirely accurate," New York Times reported.
NYPD cop-killer suspect allegedly had strong bias against police The Boston man who allegedly shot two New York City police officers "execution-style" before killing himself Saturday had a strong bias against police, according to USA Today.
Protests continue around the nation following the lack of indictments for police officers involved in the death of unarmed African-American men. The latest gathering was reported in Philadelphia Saturday.
Nielsen conducted its annual holiday sales survey and forecast, and the results say that Latino and multicultural consumers will be standing behind the shopping carts this holiday season, driving holiday sales.
