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A former Juvenile Justice Information Exchange reporter, Karen Savage, another journalist and five protesters won’t be charged by the district attorney's office in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, for their 2016 arrest.
A chilling email was leaked the day before Louisiana officials announced they would not file criminal charges against two white Baton Rouge police...
The 19-year-old young black woman born in a poor neighborhood called Dixie doesn’t just want to challenge the Good Old Boy network that runs things in this city.
It is easy to imagine that the scene Thursday afternoon in front of the Triple S Food Mart on North Foster Drive in Baton Rouge was similar to the way it was the evening of July 5, 2016, before Alton Sterling was shot to death.
Today we reflect on the memory of Mike Brown, the 18-year-old unarmed black youth fatally shot six times, twice in the head, by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson. The 2014 shooting prompted...
A JJIE reporter who was arrested covering the protests in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last summer is one of 15 people suing the city and several law enforcement agencies for what court documents call “massive violation of constitutional rights.”
For a few seconds on July 10, the ear-splitting police noisemaker — referred to as an LRAD — and the chants demanding justice for Alton Sterling awkwardly paused at exactly the same moment.
Gavin Long was not among the peaceful crowds on July 10, the week before he savagely murdered three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers.
A JJIE reporter assigned to cover the protests in Baton Rouge has been arrested. The reporter, Karen Savage, 50, was arrested at approximately 8 p.m. Central Time Sunday.
Carrying a bright purple “Black Lives Matter” banner, marchers — a mix of youth and adults — streamed down St. Charles Avenue in the stifling late afternoon heat Friday before converging with a larger crowd gathered at Lee Circle.