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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he will ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons, citing the potential for “devastating, lasting psychological consequences” from the use of the isolation as punishment. “It […]

A top African-American congressman is calling for the formation of a House select committee to investigate some of the police officer-involved shootings that have triggered controversies and mass condemnation in the United States for the […]

  The death of Tamir Rice showed us that it’s not even safe to play outside with toy guns if you’re a young Black kid, and an unnamed man in an unidentified neighborhood somewhere in […]

The University of Cincinnati has agreed to pay $4.8 million to the family, including 12 children, of a man shot to death by a campus police officer last summer, both sides announced Monday. The settlement […]

Sgt. Kizzy Adonis was served the charges as part of the investigation into Eric Garner’s chokehold death and placed on modified duty on Friday, an NYPD spokesman said. (By Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) By […]

By Stacy M. Brown, Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Washington Informer Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, the famed 80-year-old afro-centrist, has died. Welsing’s death was announced by close friends on social media and […]

Final total of people killed by US police officers in 2015 shows rate of death for young black men was five times higher than white men of the same age (The Guardian) Young black men […]