By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall His teenage body lay cooking in the August heat as the world watched. Michael Brown, 18, was dead on the street of Ferguson, Missouri, shot by Police Officer Darren … [Read more...]
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No Charges Made in Jacob Blake Shooting
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Last August, Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Shesky. After an investigation into the shooting, Kenosha County District … [Read more...]
Kenosha Police Officer Identified as Jacob Blake Shooter
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Seven. That is the number of times a police officer shot Jacob Blake while his children sat horrified in the car. The shooting occurred 40 miles away from Milwaukee in … [Read more...]
‘I Need this Country to Be Better for My Children’: Milwaukee Mothers Rally for Racial Justice
Princess Safiya Byers – Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city … [Read more...]
Milwaukee Police Release Body Cam Videos of Sterling Brown
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz On a Friday back in January, specifically January 26, Sterling Brown, a player for the Milwaukee Bucks, exited a Walgreen’s and encountered some Milwaukee Police Officers. … [Read more...]
Milwaukee County Women League of Voters Analyzes United Nations Police Brutality Report
By Mrinal Gokhale Police brutality has been controversial in the United States during the past year. The United Nations Working Group of Experts visited the United State in January 2016, releasing … [Read more...]
The Atlantic Journalist Addresses Police Brutality at Lawrence University
By Rick Peterson APPLETON, WIS. — The destruction of the black body in the United States is “tradition, it’s heritage,” award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates told a standing-room only crowd at … [Read more...]
Black Women Leaders Outraged By Police Violence Against S.C. Student
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) Leading Black women across the nation are expressing outrage this week over the videotaped violent incident showing a White police officer in … [Read more...]
Million Moms March this Mother’s Day Weekend
Maria Hamilton, the mother of Dontre Hamilton, a 31-year-old unarmed black man shot fourteen times for sleeping in a public park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - will be in Washington D.C. this weekend for … [Read more...]
Ex-cop Who Fatally Shot Dontre Hamilton Will Not Be Reinstated to MPD
By Karen Stokes Christopher Manney 38, the former Milwaukee police officer fired due to the highly publicized fatal shooting of an unarmed, mentally-ill Black man, learned his fate Monday night … [Read more...]