House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and other lawmakers called for justice and accountability at a Monday forum in Lower Manhattan on police-community relations in the wake of the Sean Bell case.

A police group and a local lawmaker gathered Sunday at police headquarters to express outrage, after a white police officer is accused of inappropriately questioning a black driver.

The driver turned out to be the highest-ranking African-American officer in the NYPD.

Another Hopeful To Become The First Black President? Former congressman Bob Barr said voters are hungry for an alternative candidate who would dramatically cut the federal government.

An assistant Denver city attorney has resigned and a Denver police officer has been disciplined after the he admitted "fixing" a speeding ticket for the prosecutor's boyfriend.

Chuck Berry on the origins of rock 'n' roll.  What set him apart was his dedication to making music for the youth.

He Hit 114 Miles Per Hour In A '66 Chevy Nova...

A woman accused of running down a man in her car after getting into a Red Sox-Yankees argument never hit her brakes as she accelerated toward the small group he was in, a prosecutor said

One day after he was fired as the Dallas Mavericks head coach, Avery Johnson said the decision was inevitable.  "It had to be done,"

Police were called after the Houston senior was denied access to the prom and demanded her money back.

What folks learned is there are four main gangs in the Franklin area. The Mexican Mafia, Gangster Disciples, Crips and Bloods.

Thirteen-year-old Cody Moskalski is wrapping up a 10-day suspension from his school bus because he was involved in a fight with another student last month.

Officials in Weld County School District 6 will not let Moskalski's father view the video because of the Federal Education Right to Privacy Act (FERPA). A spokesman says the district treats such surveillance material as it would student records.

A Good Samaritan is having a change of heart after being robbed by the people he tried to help. "It don't pay to stop and help nobody no more. It won't do nothing but hurt you," says Bill Storey.

After spending 16 years building NuJak Companies., a successful, multi-million-dollar construction business, Frank Kendrick Jr. is paving the way to a more arduous challenge of building the kingdom of God.

State corrections officials say the majority of the cell phones inmates are recieving are from outsiders. But they admit that outsiders aren't the only ones assisting prisoners

Recession is a dirty word especially in the porn industry. Sales of videos are down double digits for the first time in 40 years. Some believe that a decline in this once recession-proof business, could be an indication of a decline in overall consumer confidence.

A different kind of identity theft has more than a dozen victims being treated like suspects. Police say a Minnesota woman had an intricate scheme that started by stealing mail.

The Story Of A Black Suburb

The Ghost Of J. Edgar Hoover

What Would Carter G. Woodson Think?

“Quilombo Country,” a documentary film shot in digital video, provides a portrait of rural communities in Brazil that were either founded by runaway slaves or begun from abandoned plantations. This type of community is known as a quilombo, from an Angolan word that means "encampment." As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today.

In 1979 Cuba sent 20,000 troops to Ethiopia to fight off the invading Somalis. In return, Cuba offered to take in Ethiopian orphans and provide them primary education, military training, and university scholarships. 2,400 Ethiopian orphan children arrived, ranging from age six to thirteen. The children were sent to study in rural boarding schools on a small island, la Isla de Juventud, off the coast of Cuba.  The Unhealing Wound documents the present day situations of these young children, now adults, and the various ways their lives have been altered by their years of exile in Cuba.

Harry B. is a film director from Monrovia Liberia –West Africa. His goal is to one day put West Africa on the world's map as a viable film and entertainment nation.