Police Killings & Murders Of Black Americans
So, a Black baby boy is shot dead, inside a car, by a reckless cop, and no one is to be held accountable? And Mississippi’s white attorney general…
Mid-Term Elections 2025 & American Democracy
By Bob Topper: A disturbing essay by conservative Republican Judge Michael J. Luttig, The Final Battle for American Democracy, lays out steps that Trump and his minions will…
Editors’ picks
The continent on its own terms — politics, money and power from Lagos to Nairobi.
Torture In Uganda
A majority of Gen. Yoweri Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) members are disillusioned with the rampant spate of abductions, torture, forced and enforced citizen disappearances, among other…
War & Displacement In Africa
Politics, justice and civic life, reported from the communities they affect.
NCNW 62nd National Convention
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 15, 2026) — The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) will hold its 62nd National Convention, October 21–25, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta,…
Accountability journalism. Power, money and institutions — on the record.
Police Violence & Black America
A one-year-old child was killed by police—and Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Finch called it justified. The child was Kohen Wiley, killed by an officer in Senatobia, Mississippi. Finch,…
Wednesday, hundreds of angry New York City residents held a demonstration, in Union Square, to protest the suspicious death of Nolan Wells—and how his case was unjustly dismissed…
A United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on October 7 calling for concrete action against systemic racism should have been an opportunity for governments to demonstrate their commitment…
By Milton Allimadi: Attorneys for the court-appointed receivership overseeing Complete Business Solutions Group (CBSG), also known as Par Funding, billed the estate for reading Black Star News investigative…
