On Tuesday, U.S. Marshals arrested a 12-year-old Nebraska boy who was wanted in connection with a shooting that left a 31-year-old man dead. Jarrell Milton,…

South Carolina Solicitor Scarlett Wilson on Tuesday announced that a grand jury indicted Dylann Roof on nine counts of murder for the Charleston Mother Emanuel…

The Georgia woman who terminated her five-month-long pregnancy by taking an abortion pill she purchased online had the murder charges against her dropped, The Washington…

An Albany, Georgia woman has been charged with malice murder after an abortion attempt caused her to prematurely deliver her five-and-a-half month-old fetus, which died…

Community leaders, activists, and members of clergy in Cleveland, Ohio, hope to sidestep prosecutors and ask a judge directly to bring murder charges against two…

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One of the leading sources for African-American news and commentary was recently sold to a major media company. Yesterday, it was announced that TheRoot.com was…

Mary Baca, the mother of Antquonette Hale, 20, and Tahnaizja Smith, 15 is reaching out for help in light of her daughters' recent tragic deaths.

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It’s been a year since the Boko Haram militant group abducted almost 300 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, but the wounds following the…

Sarah Adelia Graves, 22 and Shelbie Brooke Richards, 21 were sentenced to five and eight years, respectively, for the brutal murder of Black man, James…

The mother of Michael T. Slager, the former North Charleston police officer charged with murder in the death of South Carolina man Walter Scott, said…

A video taken from a dash cam in North Charleston, South Carolina Police Officer Michael T. Slager’s cruiser was released Thursday, showing 50-year-old Walter Scott…

  A white South Carolina police officer was charged with murder on Tuesday after a newly surfaced video showed him fatally shooting an unarmed black man…