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A popular Florida church drummer, who was shot and killed by a plainclothes police officer as he waited for a tow truck, had a gun but never fired it, according to his family's lawyer.

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After over 30 years of being on air, Howard University is considering selling their public television station.

Stop Mass Inc., created by Dr. Cornel West and activist Carl Dix, have marched endlessly for racial injustice and now introduce "Rise Up October," a three-day event (Oct. 22 to Oct 24) in New York that will continue to fight against police killings.

In a page ripped from a Hollywood film about a broken criminal justice system, a judge in Marion, Alabama is under fire for ordering poor offenders to donate blood or go to jail.

Tyrone Howard reportedly dropped to his knees at his arraignment Wednesday night after being charged with first-degree murder and robbery. Howard was on the run since Sept. 1 for a drug-related shooting in the Lower East Side and escaped police ten times.

Overnight companies extinguished this #church #fire; 4700blk of Plover. Investigation is ongoing. #STLCity pic.twitter.com/BqopqOqOib — STLFD PIO (@STLFireDept) October 17, 2015 A series of fires…

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A White South Carolina coroner is in the hot seat for using the n-word while reporting an altercation between his Black neighbor, Leroy Fulton, and the…

After their long battle to have a child, Virginia couple Dana Griffin-Graves and Arkell Graves welcomed a baby boy on Tuesday.

Martese Johnson has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the state liquor agents responsible for his arrest.

A high school freshman in Oxon Hill, Maryland died Monday after police said he and his brother tried to break up a fight between his mother and her boyfriend.

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An NYPD officer was shot and killed yesterday in Harlem, New York as he was trying to track down a suspected robber. Thirty-three-year-old Randolph Holder…

Ending months of speculation, Vice President Joe Biden announced that he will not be seeking the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. He was flanked by his wife Jill Biden and accompanied by President Barack Obama.