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 ...

"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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, a young man turned up at a local hospital with stab wounds, and when questioned by Bakersfield police officers, he refused to divulge the details of his predicament, or to identify ...