She is the first black woman elected as the chief prosecutor in St. Louis. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and the St. Louis police ...

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (WLS) -- He was Merrillville's first African-American police officer in 1994. More than 26 years later, Wiley Luther Cuttino makes history again becoming the Northwest Indiana ...

The city of Dallas, Texas is honoring the first Black police officer 128 years after his tragic murder. Dallas has honored its first African American police officer, Officer William McDuff, who was ...

When William Muse served in the Gulf War, his step brother, Andre Lamar had been murdered in Tacoma. Crime was high in the city and so was resistance to police from his community. These were some of ...

It’s been less than 60 years since Norman was considered a sundown town. From around 1889 until 1967, Norman intentionally excluded African Americans from its community. African Americans were not ...

Black policing in Miami was not always as integrated as it is today. Black officers were once marginalized. The Black Police Precinct & Courthouse Museum proposes to tell the story and imprint it into ...

In February, Dallas recognized its first African American police officer, Officer William McDuff, who was killed in 1896. McDuff will now be memorialized with a street topper near the place he was ...

AUSTELL, Ga. — Austell Chief of Police Orin Scott Hamilton is stepping down after 2.5 years of service. Chief Hamilton was the first African American chief of police for the city. For now, it's not ...

RICHMOND, Calif. (KRON) — As Black History Month is celebrated, the story of Richmond’s first Black police captain, Arthur Johnson, serves as a reminder of the progress made in law enforcement ...

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - A South Carolina Police Department said it has decided to discontinue a series of posts for Black History Month due to the “unfathomable” response. Goose Creek ...

President Trump has deployed federal law enforcement officers and the National Guard in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. and threatened to take over predominantly Black Democratic cities by decree. The ...