The mother of Elijah McClain spoke out about the sentencing of one of the Colorado paramedics who was tried and convicted in her 23-year-old son’s death. A judge sentenced Peter Cichuniec to five years in prison, which is the minimum sentence for his criminally negligent homicide conviction. Cichuniec and his family begged and cried to...
Haiti declared a state of emergency and imposed a nighttime curfew following a chaotic and deadly surge of violence in which armed gangs raided the country’s two largest prisons, leading to the escape of thousands of inmates. At least 12 people have been killed since the mutiny erupted last Thursday as armed gangs carried out...
Lakeeta B., a mother of two kids living in Washington, D.C., said she began noticing a change in her outgoing daughter’s interests and demeanor when she was around 14 years old. Her daughter was a cheerleader, a gymnast and “a really, really good kid,” she told Atlanta Black Star. But Lakeeta’s daughter soon became someone...
A former Montgomery police officer who was convicted of killing an unarmed man in February 2016 was set free after reaching a plea deal with the Alabama attorney general. Aaron Cody Smith was sentenced to spend 14 years in prison in January 2020 for the death of Greg Gunn. Aaron Cody Smith (left) shot and...
One Mississippi lawmaker has proposed a bill to close three of the state’s public universities as a way to conserve state funds allocated to higher education institutions in the wake of dropping college enrollment rates. State Sen. John Polk authored Senate Bill 2726 which, if passed, would require the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL)...
