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Black Man Handcuffed at His Texas Home Over Two Stop Signs by Plainclothes Officers as Police Chief Places Hand on His Neck

SOUR LAKE, Texas — A Texas police chief seen on video placing his hand against a Black man's neck while the man was restrained outside his home is facing an outside review over the confrontation. The city announced that Police Chief Aaron Burleson a...

Trump’s $5,000 Dividend Comes With a $1.2 Trillion Price Tag — Can He Legally Send the Checks?

Sending $5,000 to every adult American under President Donald Trump's newly announced “Trump Dividend” could cost roughly $1.2 trillion, far more than the tariff revenue that could potentially help finance the plan. Wednesday night's Republican Par...

Black IHOP Workers Say Manager Wore Monkey Hat, Made Racist Slavery Insults Before Their Hours Were Cut

Complaints about racist treatment at two South Florida IHOP restaurants allegedly cost four longtime Black employees work hours, favorable shifts and, for two of them, their jobs. But the conduct Margaret Bennett, Stephanie Davis, Carline Hunter an...

California Could Make Corporations Open Their Records on Profits From Slavery If Gavin Newsom Signs New Bill

Names of enslaved people, slaveholders and records showing human beings used as collateral could become part of a California database under a bill now headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The records would come from corporations required to search their own...

13 Tuskegee Aviation Students Pass Their Flight Tests on the First Try and Earn Their Bomber Jackets

Tuskegee University marked a significant milestone this week as 13 students from its Aviation Science Program achieved Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight certifications. The ceremony took place on the same tarmac where the historic Tuskegee...

British Far-Right Commentator Milo Yiannopoulos Called for Millions to Be Deported, Now He Faces Deportation

Milo Yiannopoulos once called for ICE agents to check people's immigration status outside supermarkets and gas stations. Now the British political commentator is in ICE custody facing deportation from the United States. Immigration agents arrested...

Jeff Metcalf Tells Activist Dominique Alexander ‘Say It to My Face,’ Says He’ll Show Up at His Next Press Conference

Dominique Alexander posted a Facebook message he says Jeff Metcalf sent him during Karmelo Anthony's retrial hearings, renewing a bitter exchange between two men who crossed paths at a press conference for Anthony's family last spring. Alexander, f...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Takes 45.6% of the Vote and Wins South Florida Seat Long Represented by Black Democrats

Debbie Wasserman Schultz secured the Democratic nomination in Florida's newly drawn 20th Congressional District on Tuesday, winning a South Florida seat whose Black congressional lineage reaches back to Alcee Hastings' election in 1992. The 59-year...

Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Mother Pamela Says Granddaughter Was Provided For as Widow’s $1.27M Lawsuit Takes New Turn

Pamela Warner is speaking out about claims that she tried to keep money from her late son Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s 9-year-old daughter, saying an agreement has been reached that could give the child most of what is left of his trust and estate. PEOPL...

North Carolina Mayor’s Wife Yvonne Doughtie Says City Lost Its ‘BackBone,’ Blames Black Residents for Housing and School Problems

ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. — Roanoke Rapids Mayor Emery G. Doughtie has spent five terms leading the North Carolina city, but statements posted by his wife have pulled his family into a racially charged dispute over housing and school problems. Yvonne Do...

Suge Knight Says Keffe D Already Told on Himself, Refuses to Take the Stand in Tupac Murder Trial

Marion "Suge" Knight wants no seat in the courtroom where Duane "Keffe D" Davis is standing trial for Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing, even though Knight was behind the wheel when bullets tore into their BMW near the Las Vegas Strip. It was Knight who...

14-Year-Old Julian Davis Researched Mass Killers for Two Years as Authorities Found Guns and White-Supremacist Content at His Home

Julian Davis had three homemade firearms, ammunition and makeshift handcuffs in his Florida home when deputies searched the 14-year-old's bedroom in late April, according to authorities. Two homemade shotguns later fired successfully during testing,...

No Check Brings Them Home: The Millions Paid After Police Killings of Black People

Atatiana Jefferson's family has reached a proposed $11.25 million settlement agreement with Fort Worth nearly seven years after former police officer Aaron Dean shot the 28-year-old through a bedroom window inside her home. The deal, which still req...

Hundreds of Rounds, an Alleged Mass Shooting Plan Targeting Black People and Christopher Gillum Still Walked Free After Grand Jury Refused to Indict

Christopher Gillum walked out of custody this summer after a Louisiana grand jury declined to indict the former North Carolina police officer accused of planning to kill Black people during a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival. Held without bo...

An Outdated Homicide Alert Put Amber Newell in Front of Police Guns Twice in One Week

Amber Newell says she is afraid to drive after police surrounded her vehicle with guns drawn twice in one week because an outdated Milwaukee police alert remained attached to her license plate. Traveling on Interstate 94 in Brookfield, Wisconsin, N...