Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were released and exonerated after spending 36 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. The men were teenagers when they received a life sentence in 1984 after being convicted of murdering…
New York City’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes and e-flavored cigarettes and vapes has many critics calling for officials to reconsider. Opponents of the ban fear that it would give police another reason to profile African Americans. “We urge you…
Gwen Carr provided an emotional opening statement during the House Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing on policing practices. Carr, the mother of Eric Garner who died in New York from a police chokehold in 2014, recounted how police officers had approached…
(TriceEdneyWire.com) — As the credits rolled, the audience of more than 200 people fell silent with astonishment and anger after viewing The Central Park Five, a documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon about the 1989 case in…
The latest shooting spree in the New York City borough of Queens has rocked the foundation of the community—the parents and grandparents of both the victims and the perpetrators. It has also nearly broken a dedicated and longtime activist, who…
Two new recently published reports show that racial profiling, particularly ‘Driving while Black,’ remains a crisis in America. A recent report issued by Missouri’s attorney general Eric Schmitt revealed that Black drivers across that state are 91% more likely than…
