Los Angeles Police Officer Sharlton Wampler said he was in a life-and-death struggle with Ezell Ford, wrestling over the officer’s gun on a summer evening last year. Fearing Ford would get control of the weapon, Wampler pulled out a backup gun from beneath his uniform and fired a fatal shot into his back.
The account prompted
The questions dragged on and on.
Why did police stop 25-year-old Ezell Ford in South Los Angeles on Aug. 11, 2014, and why did they end up shooting the unarmed man to death?
Few answers were forthcoming. No full explanation from police or anyone else about the death of a young man diagnosed, according to his mother,
The workshop where Destry Walker has been employed for 20 years swells with the sound of trainees who assemble boxes, operate blister machines that seal Res-Q-Me keychains in plastic and pack loose can dies into small bags.
For Walker, the workshop is where he has learned to become a leader and an advocate, where he earns
BALTIMORE — Dominick Torrence, who has lived in this city all his life, has a long rap sheet for dealing drugs but no history of violence. So when he was charged with disorderly conduct and rioting on April 28, a night of unrest after Freddie Gray was fatally injured in
Kalief Browder was sent to Rikers Island when he was 16 years old, accused of stealing a backpack. Though he never stood trial or was found guilty of any crime, he spent three years at the New York City jail complex, nearly
t’s well known that graduating college students in recent years have faced student loan debt at unprecedented levels far exceeding that of previous generations of American graduates. Nonetheless, a new report released by the New York-based Demos public policy organization documents the patterns of debt along racial and class lines with Black, Latino, and low-income
A new study from the University of Missouri released this week suggests that Black athletes are treated differently than their White counterparts in the media, a fact that comes as no surprise to many whose lives and livelihoods revolve around sports.
In an examination of 155 news articles, MU associate professor of strategic communication Dr. Cynthia
The so-called Intolerant Jackass Act is, so far, being tolerated by state officials.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced on Wednesday that the author of the proposed initiative may begin circulating the measure and collecting signatures.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
OTTAWA — Canada’s former policy of forcibly removing aboriginal children from their families for schooling “can best be described as ‘cultural genocide.’ ”
That is the conclusion reached by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission after six
Finding a civil rights cause that increasingly brings together conservatives and liberals, the Supreme Court told employers Monday that they had an “affirmative” duty under federal anti-discrimination law to accommodate the religious practices of employees and job applicants.
By an 8-1 vote, the justices sided with a 17-year-old Muslim girl who was rejected for a job