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With tensions between minorities and police at an all-time high these days, some parents are taking more precautions to keep their children safe. In a recent interview…

Three African American women are taking legal action against the NYPD for falsely accusing them of stealing a credit card and placing them in jail.…

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Many in law enforcement use social media to nab criminals, so you’d think that they’d know to be careful when posting on websites like Facebook, because everyone is…

Despite two recent decisions by grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island not to indict White police officers in the killings of two unarmed Black…

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The Department of Justice has announced a new set of  rules to help curb racial profiling by federal law enforcement officials. These guidelines instruct federal law…

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The federal government is taking broad new steps to ban profiling by law enforcement agencies, bolstering a 2003 policy that previously only addressed the consideration…

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Do you live in one of the states without racial profiling laws? A new report from the NAACP finds out that 20 states don’t have laws…

Thirteen organizations — which include the ACLU, NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Action Network, and Rainbow Push Coalition — sent…

Via: NewsOne When NWA wrote “F*ck the Police” in the late 1980s, they were heavily criticized. At the time, the police brutality that they spoke of was a racial boogeyman that remained hidden due to the high cost of home video cameras.  Rodney King changed all that, and it let America know that the relationship […]

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Rob Brown, 29 (pictured above), a Brooklyn-based actor who starred in Finding Forrester with Sean Connery and in HBO’s Treme, says he was handcuffed in Macy’s…