Duanna Johnson is filing a $1.3 million lawsuit for her beating while in custody of Memphis/Shelby County police officers, which was caught on tape. A local television station carried the...
African Americans, civil rights organizations, journalists, and others, please pardon my family’s attempts to enlighten you and attract your support regarding an issue of gross injustice that does not afford an...
Antidepressants have been garnering a lot of bad press lately, and here's some more. Scientists are beginning to understand depression in a radical new way that downplays the importance of neurochemicals, and thus...
GOVERNORS! MAYORS! POLICE CHIEFS! Please do something about your police officers whom you have equipped with Taser guns! Evidently, they lack proper training, or these "non-lethal" weapons are...
Here is a video regarding Negro Spirituals and perhaps the most celebrated song ever written by a white songwriter: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=DMF_24cQqT0 What an emotional presentation! I...
Personal tragedy sometimes gives rise to important new legislation, organizations, and programs promoting social change that benefits Americans, like the Amber Alert, America’s Most Wanted, Mothers Against Drunk...
What are families to do when their mentally ill loved ones need hospitalization, but the system says they fail to meet the rigid test of being an immediate danger to self and others? Must we cage them in our...
Who's child is this? It is not often that the public gets to see the loss of control that mental patients sometimes suffer: <http://youtube.com/watch?v=-NZtGz_7WI0> The unfortunate girl in this...
Mesha Irizaary's only child, 23-year-old African American honor student, Idriss Stelley, was killed by the San Francisco Police Department on June 13, 2001, with 48 shots by nine officers, as he stood alone...
On the television shows, don't police talk suicidal people out of dangerous situations? Well, TV isn't real life, discovered this African American man from Columbia, MO, who was...
Family court judges who decide cases based on a misguided desire to protect parental rights often thrust families into danger. When judges are informed of parental abuse by the other parent of minors, they...
Blogging has now replaced exercise as the single most therapeutic endeavor available to modern man. It lowers blood pressure, prevents cardiovascular disease, and helps with weight loss...
SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY returned to Washington for the first time since his brain surgery especially to vote in favor of this important legislation to improve health care for millions of...
A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit involving the prison torture and death of Timothy Souders, a young man with psychiatric problems who was shackled to a cement slab for four days until his death....
BAD COP NEWS July 2, 2008 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - A Shelby County Sheriff’s deputy was suspended Monday. Investigators said the deputy told one story about how a suspect died over the weekend, but apparently the...