4/20/15— A Cook County judge ruled prosecutors didn’t prove their case — that a Chicago police detective acted recklessly when he fired into a crowd in 2012, killing 22-year-old Rekia Boyd. Judge Dennis Porter’s directed verdict means the legal team for Dante Servin didn’t …..
4/20/15-In New York, almost 120,000 black men between the ages of 25 and 54 are missing from everyday life. In Chicago, 45,000 are, and more than 30,000 are missing in Philadelphia. Across the South — from North Charleston, S.C., through …..
2015/04/02 – The undergraduate student who placed a noose in a tree on the Bryan Center Plaza has come forward and is no longer on campus, Duke announced at a press conference Thursday afternoon. The student’s identity was discovered after an investigation by …..
2015/4/2-One of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates will go free on Friday after prosecutors acknowledged that there’s not enough evidence linking him to the 1985 murders for which he’s already served nearly three decades. The Associated Press reports: “Jefferson County …..
2015/4/2 – Mississippi NAACP Branch President Derrick Johnson commended a federal grand jury’s indictment of a University of Mississippi student for defiling a historical Civil Rights Movement landmark. “The people need to see that the wheels of justice do still turn, …..
