Three others charged with aiding and abetting By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, On Wednesday, at a news conference in Minnesota, Attorney General Keith Ellison formally announced that charges have been upgraded on former police officer Derek Chauvin, who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck until Floyd breathed his last breadth. Chauvin, who has been the […]

By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press, Protesters marched in Mississippi’s capital city Monday, with some stopping to lie on the ground outside Jackson’s main police station to remember George Floyd, a black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for several minutes. Other protests took place during the […]

By Edelia “Dr. Jay” Carthan, Contributing Writer, A white Mississippi mayor is receiving backlash after tweeting insensitive comments amid the controversial death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who died recently while in police custody after a white policeman kneeled on his neck for nine and a half minutes.  Floyd pleaded for his life […]

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent, From the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to the Streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Louisville, Atlanta, Washington, DC and New York City, and the bright lights of the Big Apple, citizens across racial lines are expressing outrage over the police killing of […]