Urban Issues

Nationwide — Ja’Keisa Knox, a 29-year-old African American mother from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has died in jail while awaiting trial on a felony child abuse charge linked to her 9-month-old son’s […]

Nationwide — Sherrod Harrison, an African American man from Sanford, North Carolina, is demanding answers after the Cumberland County Department of Public Health incorrectly reported that he had tested positive for […]

Nationwide — Genelle Bradford, who was 18 years old at the time, has finally been identified as the Black woman found dead in an abandoned Pennsylvania home in 1999. Advanced […]

Nationwide — Coco Gauff said the racist abuse she received online after her previous match had left her feeling drained before she suffered her first career loss to Elise Mertens […]

Nationwide — NFL star Terrell Owens is facing a defamation lawsuit from three friends of Nolan Wells, a Black college student who went missing from Mississippi’s Horn Island during a […]

Nationwide — Kenasia Guilford, a 33-year-old African American female firefighter from Toledo, Ohio, faces several charges after police accused her of handcuffing her boyfriend, refusing to release him, taking his […]

Nationwide — Meka Fortson, the mother of 23-year-old African American U.S. Airman Roger Fortson, who was shot and killed by a Florida sheriff’s deputy inside his apartment, says an all-white […]

Nationwide — Deryl Bright Jr., a 17-year-old African American teen from Baltimore, Maryland, spent seven months under house arrest after police accused him of taking part in a violent carjacking. […]

Nationwide — Five black children adopted by white couple Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Lantz have been awarded a $4.4 million settlement from West Virginia after state child welfare officials failed […]

By Attorney Zulu Ali Nationwide — Foundational Black Americans (FBA) are a distinct American people descended from the Black Americans who arrived during the transatlantic slave trade and built this […]

Nationwide — Sha’michal Russell, a 13-year-old African American boy from Shreveport, Louisiana, has sadly died after using his body to shield his 3-year-old sister from gunfire at an apartment complex. […]

Nationwide — Caleb Flax, a 4-year-old African American boy from North Carolina, was killed while sleeping inside his Charlotte home after armed suspects allegedly fired 84 shots into homes in his […]

Nationwide — Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer who was convicted of murdering Botham Jean, has been granted parole after serving seven years of a 10-year prison sentence. The […]

Nationwide — Sarah J. Fields, a social media commentator who criticized an African American audio engineer over an enhanced recording connected to the Nolan Wells death investigation, is now under […]

Nationwide — Nathalie Belizaire, a 29-year-old African American mother from North Miami Beach, Florida, was arrested after she reportedly left her four young children home alone while she took a […]

Nationwide — Roelf Meyer, South Africa’s new ambassador to Washington, has rejected claims that white Afrikaners are facing genocide in South Africa, saying there is no evidence of a mass campaign […]

Nationwide — Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old African American man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent about four decades on Utah’s death row, has been ordered released on […]

Nationwide — Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, is scheduled to be executed on September 30, which would make her the first woman put to death by […]

Nationwide — Hannah Gann, a white teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who became involved in pro-Palestinian activism, has admitted that she spent years falsely claiming Black and Palestinian identities. She now […]

Nationwide — John P. Sheeran, a 15-year-old white boy from Chatham, Massachusetts, has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after prosecutors accused him of repeatedly forcing a Black teenager underwater during […]

Nationwide — Stanford University is facing criticism after an advertisement for its dining services allegedly used artificial intelligence to change the race and gender of a student without his approval. […]

Nationwide — LeJames Norman, a 40-year-old African American man from Texas, was executed Wednesday evening for killing three people during a failed 2005 robbery, ending a case that had kept […]

Nationwide — Ja’hki Clark, 12, and Ja’marion Rolle, 11, two African American brothers from DeKalb County, Georgia, were sadly killed in a shooting outside their apartment Sunday, just days after […]

Nationwide — Nolan Wells’ friends will not face criminal charges in connection with his death after a Jackson County grand jury found no evidence that anyone committed a crime or acted […]

Mason Wright, a student at Morris Brown College and Kosey Henley, a student at the University of Georgia are helping to lead a hands-on mobile agriculture initiative focused on education, […]

Nationwide — Marvins Antoine, an African American football player at UMass Dartmouth, was stabbed to death at 18 after a fight broke out in a Providence, Rhode Island, parking lot […]

Nationwide — Former Los Angeles Lakers star and coach Byron Scott has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, putting a civil trial over a sexual assault lawsuit on hold. The case […]

Nationwide — Octavia Robinson, an African American mother from Fayetteville, North Carolina, has been charged after reportedly giving her two young sons cream soda mixed with lighter fluid. The children, […]

Nationwide — Karmelo Anthony’s murder conviction is drawing renewed attention after court records revealed allegations involving guns, violent threats, hateful messages, and a teenage conversation about Donald Trump. The information […]

Nationwide — Drevion Brewer, an African American teen from LaGrange, Georgia, was killed in a Labor Day shooting that also killed another teenager and wounded a third person. Brewer, 17, […]

Nationwide — Winter Jones, a 6-year-old Memphis girl, died after she was left inside a daycare van for hours, and three people connected to the facility have now been indicted […]

Nationwide — Martinez Long, a 19-year-old African American teen from Dearborn, Michigan, was sentenced to two years of probation after fatally shooting a gunman during a chaotic confrontation at Fairlane […]