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Troy Davis Supporters Rally In Wright Square Troy Anthony Davis is in federal court Wednesday for an evidentiary hearing, WTVM reports. Davis has spent nearly two decades on death row for the murder of Savannah Police Officer Mark MacPhail, but last year the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a federal judge to hold an evidentiary hearing. During the hearing there will be no opening arguments, and the U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. has said he expects Troy Davis's defense team to immediately present their new evidence. I ...

3 Police Officers Indicted In Race-Related Beating According to CNN, five people, including three police officers, have been indicted in the fatal race-related beating of a Latino man in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. "The evidence suggests that Mr. Ramirez was targeted, beaten ...

Judge Orders Promotions For White Firefighters Who Sued Over Racial Discrimination Last summer, 14 white firefighters and one Latino firefighter won a Supreme Court case charging they had been denied promotions because of race. Connecticut officials now say they'll promote the firefighters following a ruling Tuesday from a federal judge. The case spent five years in court. It was sparked by the New Haven, Conn., fire department's decision to toss out the scores of all firefighters who took a test for a promotion because none of the Black firefighters scored well enou ...

Black teacher may get 15 years in prison for cutting in line This is like the Jena 6 case all over again. ...

Report: L.A. Police Mishandling Complaints Of Racial Profiling Against Officers An independent investigation of how the Los Angeles Police Department handles complaints of racial profiling and other types of discrimination against its officers found the department lacking. Inspector General Andre Briotte found that in a third of the cases he looked at, police officials made serious missteps, such as failing to talk to all the witness ...

Tom Joyner's 2 Great-Uncles Pardoned By South Carolina Thomas and Meeks Griffin, two great-uncles of Tom Joyner, and two other Black men were sent to the electric chair 94 years ago for the 1913 murder of a veteran of the Confederate Army. They were unanimously pardoned posthumously Wednesday, after Joyner spoke on their behalf to the South Carolina state parole board. Joyner said he learned his relatives' story from the PBS documentary African American Lives 2, with ...

Chris Rock speaks the truth about Roman Polanski You have to commend Chris Rock for being one of the only celebrities to stand against Roman Polanski and his sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl. Especially when many other celebrities, including Natalie Portman, Penelope Cruz and Martin Scorsese, are claiming it was simply a lapse in judgment. ...

Why is the Derrion Albert case such a big deal for the media? The fatal beating of Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old Black kid, on the streets of Chicago has sparked the outrage of mainstream America. But will it be enough for it to finally begin addressing the crisis of youth violence? ...

White police officer with cornrows: No, it's not OK Thomas Strain, a white police officer in the predominantly Black 35th district in Philadelphia, was ordered off the streets and made to take a desk job. Which clearly is an insult. He'd been on the force for five years, with a clean record, so naturally, people wondered why. Well, according to sources in the department who wanted to remain nameless, it was because he had cornrows. ...