Category: Featured News, State/National News
Study: Blacks Comprise Majority of Defendants Who are Wrongfully Convicted
By Frederick H. Lowe – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – African-Americans comprise the majority of defendants wrongfully convicted...
Harvard Study: Steep Declines in Black Home Ownership in Major Cities
News Analysis By Charlene Crowell – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – For the 12th consecutive year, America’s national...
Scholarship and Police Training Fund Will Keep Philando Castile’s Name Alive
By Frederick H. Lowe – Police have shot and killed at least 175 black men so far, this year, but it’s probably safe to say...
Memorial Acknowledges African and Caribbean Troops Who Fought for Britain in Both World Wars
By Frederick H. Lowe – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Sir Michael Fallon, Britain’s Secretary of Defense, recently unveiled...
More Than 100 Federal Agencies Fail to Report Hate Crimes to the FBI’s National Database
By A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – In violation of a longstanding legal mandate, scores of...
NYPD Officer Fatally Shot While Sitting in Police Vehicle
By Staff – New York Police Department Officer Miosotis Familia was fatally shot while sitting in her police vehicle in the Bronx on...
Citizens Decry Mayor’s Plan to Put Confederate Statues ‘in Context’
By Jeremy Lazarus – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Veteran NAACP activist Ora Lomax is still fuming over Richmond, Va. Mayor...
Dorothy Leavell Tells How She Plans to Lead the Black Press
By Hazel Trice Edney – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Loud laughter, greetings and chatter between old friends and fellow...
International Team to Investigate Reports of Deadly Violence in Congo
(TriceEdneyWire.com/GIN) – The U.N.’s main human rights body has approved a resolution to send a team of experts “to establish the...
Party With a Purpose: Fighting HIV Among Black Women at the 2017 Essence Festival
Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Black AIDS Institute (TriceEdneyWire.com) – An estimated 1 in 49 women will be...
