Niya Kenny, 18, was arrested in a classroom at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina for speaking out when she saw her classmate being mistreated by school resource officer, Ben Fields.
Dee Barnes recently sat down with
HuffPost blogger Kevin Powell to give her first public interview in the 24 years since Dr. Dre assaulted her at a Hollywood nightclub in 1991.
Yvonne Ervin of Snellville, Georgia called 911 Saturday morning to report that she and her husband Zachary were being attacked by their sons in their home.
Trigger warning: disturbing images and fictionalized depictions of brutality, violence, and death
Jacqueline Olive is a documentary filmmaker living in Florida. Her most recent project is the feature film,
Always in Season, which aims to explore the history of violence and terrorism that Blacks faced through lynching, as well as ongoing efforts to reconcile and seek justice for the heinous race-based murders of Black people for over a century.
In 2012, Crystal Pope and two of her friends were stopped and frisked by male NYPD officers. The 25-year-old mother of two, told Fusion she felt violated during the stop-and-frisk. ”We felt really powerless. It was overwhelming. It was degrading.” The police, she says, were searching the area for a male rapist. The officers overstepped their boundaries.
LaTonya Taylor was told she may never walk or speak again after her estranged husband shot her in the face and chest in April of last year. "The bullet went through my heart and though my spine," she said. "They didn't think I would be able to walk, talk or feed myself." Now,
she is grateful to have regained both abilities.
A pregnant woman is recovering after a man in the building she was working in attacked her. She suspects a dispute with a coworker may have led to this horrific attack.
The assault happened on March 5th at the Elliott Houses on 26th Street in Chelsea.
A 17-year-old girl, who wants only to be identified as Shay, is recovering after she was beaten by a man on a Philadephia trolley after bumping into him with her bag while traveling to school on Wednesday morning.
