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Isaac Goodlow, a 30-year-old man, was fatally shot by Carol Stream #police during a domestic violence call at his home in Villagebrook...

The #NAACP is calling for a federal investigation into the Broward Sheriff's Office and its management of #Florida's second-largest...

#LosAngeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore expressed concerns after reviewing body-worn camera footage of an officer shooting and...

Two new studies have shed light on the impact of police violence on Black Americans. The first study, published in #JAMA Internal...

Lawmakers in #Washington state are mulling over a proposal to ban police from using hog-tying as a restraint technique, spurred by the...

The U.S. Education Department has released data revealing significant disparities in educational opportunities for Black and Latino...

#Ring, the video doorbell company, has announced it will discontinue its tool that allowed #police to request users' footage directly, a...

Visit #Philadelphia, in collaboration with Little Free Library, is celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth by providing access to banned books by...

The #Nebraska State Patrol is investigating the death of 17-year-old #ChaseDitter, whom a police officer shot during a welfare check in...

The Justice Department accused First National Bank of #Pennsylvania of discriminatory practices against Black and Latino homebuyers in...

An 11-year-old Black child, Quantavious Eason, faced legal action in Senatobia, #Mississippi, after urinating in public last August....

A former #StLouis area #police officer, Marcellis Blackwell, faces a new federal indictment for sexually assaulting 19 men while in...

The "#Tuskegee Study of Untreated #Syphilis in the Negro Male," a heinous experiment in #Alabama, exploited 600 Black men, 399 with...

In 2020, #Aurora #police wrongly detained Brittney Gilliam and her four Black daughters at gunpoint, mistaking her car for stolen. This...

The University of #Pennsylvania has taken steps to address its historic involvement in racist scientific research by burying the remains...

Scientists are launching an ambitious project to collect genetic material from 500,000 people of African ancestry, creating the world's...

The #Charlotte-Mecklenburg #Police Department confirmed that an officer punched Christina Pierre during her arrest last year, and a video...

The #Louisiana State Penitentiary, formerly a slave plantation, now America's largest maximum-security prison, is at the heart of a...

In a significant legal resolution, Seattle has consented to pay $10 million to 50 protesters who filed a lawsuit against the city's...

#Minnesota State Patrol Trooper Ryan Londregan faces charges, including second-degree unintentional murder, in the death of Ricky Cobb...