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A Memphis, Tenn., child was beaten to death with a tennis shoe by the man who was babysitting her after she defecated on the floor.

A 24-year-old man is being held without bond in a Charlotte jail after raping and killing his own 23-year-old female cousin, police said. Derek Ward

Two Conyers, Ga., teenage twins are behind bars and facing murder charges for killing their own mother. Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah Whithead, 16-year-old twin girls, stabbed

Dexter Pittman wanted to concentrate on proving to NBA teams that he would be a valuable asset in the NBA by participating at the draft

Senseless murders continue to affect Chicago’s black community. On May 19, Officer Thomas Wortham IV, 30, was murdered near his parents’ home on the South

DETROIT – Reverend Al Sharpton called for an end to violence in Detroit on Saturday, May 22, while delivering the eulogy at the funeral of

Aubrey Louis Berry has been acquitted of the murder of Atlanta rapper Dolla. Berry shot and killed Dolla in 2009 after the two exchanged words

Community activists continue to speak out against the senseless death of a 7 year-old. Aiyana Jones was killed by a Detroit police officer after being

Georgia rapper Jerode “Yung Hott” Paige 27,  was shot and killed on May 15 while filming a video in Griffin, Georgia. Yung Hott was surrounded

Corporate attorney and author Pamela Samuels Young has penned four acclaimed novels within the past four years and has helped to establish outlets for black

It is easy to feel concern, compassion or apathy, about what people openly discuss and talk about frequently — especially in this age of social

Today, Death Row Records is a cautionary tale of the meteoric rise and spectacular crash of one of the most profitable and successful record labels

Chicago – A black man was killed by a CVS employee for stealing a tube of toothpaste in a Chicago area store. On Sunday, May

                                       Dolla Proceedings in the case against the man accused

In an April 23, 2010, Op-Ed piece for The New York Times titled “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game,” Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. argues that a

A member of the notorious Crips street gang received a prison sentence of more than 1,000 years for murdering NFL star Darrent Williams. On April

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is exactly the type of person that Robert F. Kennedy despised back in the day and avoided at all costs. So

As I continue to search for the source of my uneasiness about Malcolm X’s killer being completely released, even though he served nearly a half-century for his crime

The man who assassinated civil rights leader Malcolm X is now a free man. Thomas Hagan, 69, was released from Lincoln Correctional Facility on April

The self-loathing among black youth continues to surge out of control in Chicago. In only four months, 113 people have been murdered in the city.