Jenkins was pronounced dead on May 17, just one day before her 10th birthday, according to the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.
According to the FBI, only twice in 60 years have police deaths fallen under 41. In 2013, the year that preceded the recent spike, police deaths hit a record low of 27. In 1961, there were 37 police deaths.
Watch Roland Martin and Stanley Nelson discuss the upcoming documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution in the video clip above. Don't miss the premiere of the film tonight on PBS.
The FBI on Thursday arrested 46 current and former Georgia correction officers in a statewide drug trafficking operation, reports CNN. The arrests came after a two-year federal investigation United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia John Horn announced details of the arrests and the FBI’s raids at the nine prisons where the trafficking took […]
Gun control has been a lingering issue within our country, but that didn’t stop scores of people from purchasing firearms during Black Friday.
On Wednesday's edition of NewsOne Now, Roland Martin asked Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of Color of Change, what led the organization to ascertain documentation about Black activists was being surveilled by government officials.
An ineffective system has left Tamir Rice and Eric Garner -- two high-profile police brutality victims of the previous year -- off the federal government's official record of homicides by officers. In fact, out of 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States, 17,776 refused to provide such data
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told NBC’s Chuck Todd during the Washington Ideas Forum, hosted by AtlanticLIVE and the Aspen Institute, that the federal government should not require police…
After NFL executives claimed no one from the organization saw the Ray Rice elevator tape, Associated Press broke a contrasting story. An unnamed law enforcement official told AP the clip was sent to an NFL executive back in April. The NFL has hired former FBI director Robert Mueller to conduct an “independent” investigation into how the league […]
Have you seen 2-year-old Myra Lewis? The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the return of the Black toddler who has…
Fred Hampton was an activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party in the 1960’s. His death was a major crime investigation, with…
The FBI released video of shooter Aaron Alexis walking inside Navy Yard with a gun on the day of the shooting. See Video
