BY A.C. THOMPSON AND KEN SCHWENCKE   SPECIAL TO THE TRICE EDNEY NEWS WIRE FROM PROPUBLICA   (TriceEdneyWire.com) - In violation of a longstanding legal mandate, scores of federal law enforcement agencies are failing to submit statistics to the FBI’s national hate crimes database, ProPublica has learned. The lack of participation by federal law enforcement represents a significant and largely unkno ...

Damian is one of 20 investors who will own 60 percent of the High Times, a Los Angeles-based magazine founded in 1974 by the late Thomas King Forcade. ...

Jeronimo Yanez, a police officer with the St. Anthony, Minn., police department, shot to death Castile, a cafeteria worker employed by St. Paul, Minn., Public School District, on July 6, 2016. ...

Black servicemen significantly more likely to be prosecuted and disciplined in all branches ...

Inmates have high rates of chronic medical conditions, especially viral infections. In addition, substance abuse and mental illness are common among inmates. ...

PHOTO: Alanté Millow/Trice Edney News Wire--Activist Kemba Smith pose for a photo with Elder Cheryl Mercer after a prayer brunch at Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church. Internationally known for her nightmarish incarceration and victorious release from prison, Smith now spreads a message of hope. ...

Former NAACP President Believes His Civil Rights Record Will Inspire Voters ...

By Glenn Ellis (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Many chronic diseases are the result of the body's immune system mistakenly perceiving that the body is under attack from foreign bodies. A counterattack is then launched -- an inflammatory response meant to vanquish the intruder. In reality, the immune system has misinterpreted the threat and is actually attacking the body's own cells and tissue. Immune system disorder ...

'The goal of Sister-Friend is to provide girls of African descent with positive role models, mentors and the extra attention that can give them the added incentives to reach educational, emotional, physical and personal goals commensurate with their potential." ...

Workers dismantle the 35-foot granite Liberty Place monument Monday on Canal Street in New Orleans. The statue, which commemorates a White supremacist uprising in 1874, is being removed along with three others honoring Confederates. ...