Today would have been Sonya Massey’s 37th birthday. Instead of celebrating with cake and balloons, her family is reminded of ...

The Sangamon County Board approved the settlement on Tuesday, seven months after a deputy shot the unarmed woman in her home ...

As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...

Attorneys for the family of Sonya Massey announced they reached a $10 million settlement in the wrongful death case against ...

The Rock Island Police officer who shot and killed an unarmed 21-year-old man was justified in his use of deadly force, according to a report issued Friday afternoon from Rock Island County ...

In the early morning hours of July 6, Massey called 911 to report a prowler outside her home, setting in motion events that ...

Wednesday would have been Sonya Massey’s 37th birthday. Instead, it was the day her family’s lawyers announced a $10 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against Sangamon County and ...

George Michael Zimmerman, born October 5, 1983, was a part-time student at Seminole State College and a neighborhood watch captain for the Retreat at Twin Lakes gated community in Sanford, Florida, at ...

The Rock Island Police Department has released the footage from the body camera and squad car camera from the incident where ...

Altadena is one of Southern California's most historic Black communities. Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump and the NAACP are going after Southern California Electric on behalf of victims who ...