Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minister Stephen Muhammad, who is with the Nation of Islam, has been going door-to-door and on the streets in Akron handing out ...

Altgeld Gardens public housing project is on Chicago’s Far South Side, 18 miles from the city’s elegant downtown. It sits between a sewage treatment plant, a freeway, and the sludge-colored Little ...

In D.C. Superior Court not long ago, a man named Henry Wallace went on trial for murder. A friend was afraid that someone was out to kill him, so he paid Wallace to eliminate the threat. Such an ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — The “code of silence” on the streets is real and needs to be broken, Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge Kenneth Barnard said as he sentenced Maliek Hargrave to a lengthy prison sentence ...

"Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, ...