Tag: sentencing
2 Ex-cops Charged in George Floyd Killing Reject Plea Deals
By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press
Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's...
WNBA’s Griner Convicted at Drug Trial, Sentenced to 9 Years
By Jim Heintz, Associated Press
The 31-year-old Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and a eight-time all-star with the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, listened with a...
Freedom Riders’ 1947 Convictions Vacated in North Carolina
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they...
‘Southern Hospitality’ Doesn’t Always Apply to Black People, as Revealed in the Killing of...
By Barbara Harris Combs, Clark Atlanta University
The idea of community and who belongs and who does not was a common theme in the Jan....
Congress Poised to Pass EQUAL Act, Game Changing Legislation in the Racist ‘War on...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Many have identified New York City in the 1980s as the epicenter of the War on...