Month: August 2015

Federal hate crimes filed in Charleston church shooting

Turner’s name is added to a growing list that includes at least five Black women who have died in police custody since mid-July. The list includes Sandra Bland, Kindra Chapman and Ralkina Jones.

Civil rights groups demand federal investigation into the death of Sandra Bland

A white supervisor at a Kansas City, Mo. hotel tastelessly mocked Sandra Bland’s death by hanging a “slave doll” from a doorway at the hotel.

First Black woman to pilot the cool spy planes of Intelligence

A human rights failure

In many cases women officers’ perspectives have been silenced pertaining to violence and their contributions to the changing landscape of this country have been nonexistent.

The CDC Funds Black organizations

Bobby Brown’s wife Alicia Etheredge was rushed to the hospital Saturday after suffering a seizure hours after Bobbi Kristina Brown’s funeral in Alpharetta, Georgia, reports MSN.com.…