BYP100 Chicago Holds People’s Assembly for Police Accountability: Demands Justice for Rekia Boyd
The Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) Chicago Chapter disrupted the Chicago Police Board’s meeting in order to call...
Day: March 18, 2016
Justice Department and City of Ferguson, Missouri, Resolve Lawsuit with Agreement to Reform Ferguson Police Department and Municipal Court to Ensure Constitutional Policing
The Justice Department and the city of Ferguson, Missouri, today jointly filed an agreement resolving the United States’ pending lawsuit...
Deutsche Bank Must Stand Trial in Case Accused of African American Homeowner Beating and Home Invasion
Bank's Lawyers at San Francisco Severson & Werson LLP Embrace Felon Convicted for Bid Rigging at Public Foreclosure Auctions to...
CBC Chairman G. K. Butterfield to Senate Republicans: The American People Deserve Better
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman G. K. Butterfield released a statement in response to Senator Mitch McConnell...
Madigan Issues 2015 Public Access Report During Sunshine Week
Public Access Bureau Received Over 4,700 New Matters in 2015 CHICAGO, IL — In recognition of Sunshine Week, Attorney...
Among Delinquent Teens, Whites More Likely Than Blacks to Abuse Hard Drugs
Findings call for reform addressing disproportionate incarceration of African Americans • First comprehensive study of substance abuse and dependence in...
Kirk: Force Backpage to Stop Denying Role in Sex-Trafficking
Nation’s Top Sex Trafficking Site Refuses to Comply with Senate Subpoena Backpage Recently Sued Justice Department to Block Kirk-Authored SAVE...
Black Women’s Expo Debuts 22nd Season of Uplifting Black Women
Popular experiential expo slated for three city tour in 2016 CHICAGO, IL – The Black Women’s Expo (BWE), one of...
Food Stamp Fraud: Supermarket Owner Imprisoned for Multi-Million-Dollar Scam
Tessema Lulseged owned a supermarket in Decatur, Georgia, but he was selling much more than groceries. He was trafficking in...
Beverly “Squatter” Pleads Guilty
One of four men charged last year with illegally occupying and renting out foreclosed properties, several of which were located...
