Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matteson recently appointed the village’s first African American police and fire chiefs, with both having extensive experience in ...

A new study finds that worrying about police brutality and harassment is associated with physical markers of cardiovascular ...

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 number of Black recruits — especially women — has been dropping for years at the LAPD. The department quietly shut down its DEI program this year. President Trump’s efforts to do away with DEI ...

Even 20 years after Clara Luper's famous sit-in, no Black people had been employed by the city of Moore. Until Nate Tarver. Things were very different in 1979, Tarver remembered. He'd recently ...

The raid utilized discriminatory vagrancy laws, similar to those used in the South to criminalize and re-enslave Black people after the Civil War. The mass arrests in 1909 are an early example of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The community is mourning the loss of a trailblazer who paved the way for women of color in the police force. In 1968, Claudine Penn made history as the first African American female ...