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...]
U. Va. Bar: Black Student Denied Entry Not ‘Belligerent’
By Michael Winter, USA Today The 20-year-old black University of Virginia student bloodied by alcohol control officers outside a bar last week was denied entry after a “polite and cordial” … [Read more...]
Black Lawyers to Challenge Police Brutality in 25 Cities
By Pamela J. Meanes President National Bar Association WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an effort to combat police brutality in the Black community, the National Bar Association (NBA) recently announced … [Read more...]
Beyond Ferguson: Time for Young Black Leaders
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) During a rousing, standing- room only town hall discussion dedicated to the shooting death of Michael Brown in … [Read more...]
People across the nation affected by the outcry in Ferguson
By Karen Stokes The tragic events surrounding the Michael Brown Jr. case in Ferguson, Missouri has ignited emotions not only nationally but internationally. Michael Brown, an unarmed … [Read more...]