Twenty-one-year-old Alteria Woods was an innocent victim who was caught in the crosshairs between the father of her unborn child and local police.

Plus, Kerry Washington wants California Attorney General Kamala Harris to be our nation's first female President of color and Disney to post alligator warning signs at their Florida resorts.

Police say the Shemel Mercerius was shot to death by 24-year-old Taariq Stephens who later turned himself into the police. The motive behind her murder is not known.

The MSNBC anchor and NBC co-host shares her story of guilt, loss and solace over the 2004 death of her sister Renate.

Barbara Mills and the East Baton Rouge DA believe the key to finding Brittney Mills' killer lies in her text messages.

Twenty four hours after Gynnya McMillen was taken to a juvenile detention center for an altercation in her home, the teen was found dead in her cell

Kiesha Jenkins, a Black transgender woman and college student, was fatally shot, making her the 21st transgender woman killed this year.

The "Yoga" singer's speech regarding police brutality was cut short just as she was about to touch on the Black Lives Matter movement

Despite her death, Sandra Bland’s voice is still being heard on the world’s most widely watched sites and social networks —and it’s shaping how the media portrays her.

We must recognize the stories of women like Sandra Bland, Miriam Carey and Malissa Williams with the same amount of passion and relentlessness as we do for Black men in combatting police brutality.

The American Civil Liberties Union has released an appalling video of California police confronting a pregnant Black woman. Mandated body cameras captured officers in Barstow, California, slamming a woman named Charlena Michelle Cooks during a January incident where they were called to her daughter’s school. Cooks, who was eight months pregnant at the time, was […]