2015/5/8-The Justice Department has opened a formal investigation into the Baltimore Police Department to determine whether officers have committed systemic constitutional violations, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced Friday, putting the city’s force under rigorous federal scrutiny. The broad investigation, …..
2015/05/08 – Robert Henry Rice, the last of 10 young white defendants in a hate crime conspiracy case that resulted in the death of James Craig Anderson, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars in federal court on Friday. Rice was …..
2015/5/7-Imagine strangers crossing the street to avoid you, imagine the police arbitrarily stopping you, imagine knowing people fear you because of the color of your skin. Many of this country’s young black men and boys don’t have to imagine. In …..
An exclusive first look at the HBO documentary Southern Rites, which examines a town’s first desegregated prom and the killing that further divided people along racial lines. 2015/5/7-Premiering on HBO May 18, Southern Rites is a new documentary that visits Montgomery County, Georgia, …..
2015/5/6-Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday called on the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a full-scale civil rights investigation into the “pattern and practices” of the city police department — a probe that would examine excessive force, discriminatory harassment, …..
