Man With $2 Bail Spends Months In Prison
Aitabdel Salem, a 42-year-old Queens man, is suing the city after he spent months at Rikers Island being kept in
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Innocent Man Walks Free After Spending 16 Years in Prison
I don’t know what’s more incredible—that a Kansas City, Kan., man spent 16 years in prison for a botched purse
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Philando Castille Case: Cop Says He Feared For His Life
A Minnesota police officer charged in the death of a black motorist testified Friday that the man was pulling out
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School Tries To Suspend 6th-grader Over Haircut
“I was walking into class, and she saw my hair and said ‘You can’t have two lines in your hair.
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Flint Will Live Without Clean Water For Another 3 Years
While Flint was once a thriving automotive, industrial city, when GM began to downsize in the 1980’s, the city took
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Two Years Since Freddie Gray’s Death
It’s been two years since Freddie Gray died from injuries he sustained while in custody of the Baltimore Police Department. But
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Black Doctors Are Still Paid Less Than White Colleagues
The 2017 Medscape Physician Compensation Report shows that black doctors are still paid less than their white counterparts, by about 15
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Innocent Black People More Likely To Be Wrongfully Convicted
A recent review of almost 2,000 exonerations nationwide, over the span of three decades, has shown that black people are
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