More than 1,000 black activists, artists, scholars and organizations released a statement that expresses “black solidarity” with the Palestinian struggle against Israel, Salon reports.
It’s hard to write about something you know is stupid.
The two New Jersey police officers who fatally shot Jerame Reid will not face criminal charges. A grand jury cleared them Wednesday in the December 2014 shooting, which was captured on their patrol car’s dashboard camera, AP reports.
Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, was was shot and killed by St. Louis police officers Wednesday, reportedly died from a single gunshot wound to the back, according to an autopsy, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Leah Still is now among a celebrated list of sports champions like Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan who have appeared on their own Wheaties cereal box, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Jamyla Bolden was in bed Tuesday at 9:30 p.m., doing her homework, when bullets pierced her Ferguson, Mo., home. Her mother was shot in the leg during the shooting and has since been released from the hospital; 9-year-old Jamyla didn't make it.
On Tuesday, Divine Vaniah Chambliss, 31, was watching his 2-year-old son in their Hoover, Ala., home when he lay down to take a nap. Police believe the child found his father's gun and began playing with it.