“For 10 years, I have carried this confession secretly in fear of what could happen to my family and myself if the government found out what I knew,” ex-police officer Ray Wood's cousin said of the letter he said he'd been carrying since 2011.
Prosecutors decided to dismiss the charges after Amy Cooper participated in a “comprehensive, respectful” educational program designed to teach her about racial identity and equity.
As a teenage criminal, William O’Neal was recruited to infiltrate the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party. He died a conflicted man by suicide over two decades later.
The legacy of rainbow coalition politics has deep roots in Chicago, stretching from its origins in the city's Black Panther Party chapter to Barack Obama's historic presidential wins.
Akua Njeri, who went by Deborah Johnson in 1969 at the time of Fred Hampton's killing by law enforcement in his home, has fought for social justice her entire life.
In a pre-dawn raid in December 1969, a team of law enforcement officials descended on the Chicago apartment of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party's chairman and shot him dead.
Three Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd's killing responded to reports of a possible hostage-taking at an apartment and immediately detained Adrian Drakeford, who wasn't involved and had in fact called 911 to report his car had been broken into.
Body camera footage showed Andre Hill coming out of a garage, holding a cellphone in his left hand seconds before he was shot by officer Adam Coy. Two other officers then rolled his body over and put him in handcuffs, without offering any first aid.
