A new research study blames "long history of discrimination" against African Americans, rather than genetics, for the persisting higher mortality rate among the US black population.

A black man has been held in US jail without a trial and without representation for 10 years after being charged in connection to a double murder in Georgia.

After a massive outcry, seven US police officers and three hospital employees have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 28-year-old Black inmate at a state psychiatric hospital last week in Virginia.

"When you all see this video you're going to see Tyre Nichols is calling out for his mom," family lawyer Ben Crump says.

A newly released bodycam video shows the distressing moments when Los Angeles police officers brutally kill an unarmed African American man by tasering him multiple times.

The Democratic Party in the United States is the most effective of two evils, says a Montreal-based author.

The death of Keenan Anderson, the cousin of a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, after he was repeatedly tasered by police officers in Los Angeles has sparked a massive outcry in the US.