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Less than a week ago a family lost their husband, father and son ... Brian Cardall ... because a Hurricane police officer was too trigger-happy with his taser gun. The Cardall family released the following 911 recordings on the death that occurred last Tuesday.

The incidence of HIV/AIDS has reached alarming rates among African Americans, and young Blacks are being hit hardest. To address the crisis, our blog is supporting efforts by TheLoop21.com and Magic Johnson Foundation, a recognized leader in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, for an online awareness campaign this summer.

I ask all villagers to call on DA Chisolm to do everything in his power to prevent an execution.

The heat got to be too much for Newt Gingrich. He folded. He now admits that he was wrong to call Judge Sonia Sotomayor a racist. Now is the time to stop the hate from other Republicans (e.g. Tancredo) as well...

There have been 20 taser-related deaths in America over the first 20 weeks of the calendar year. Perhaps it is time for congressional hearings on taser torture in America?

The AfroSpear is calling on all bloggers to join us in a Day of Blogging for Justice: Standing Up Against the Police Pre-Trial Electrocution on Friday, April 24, 2009.

Troy Davis' appeal was rejected by the federal appeals court in Atlanta yesterday. In the 2 to 1 opinion, the court ruled that Troy was unable to establish by clear and convincing evidence that a new jury would not find him guilty.

We now have 1,629 blogs ranked in April 2009 Black Blog Rankings...

An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hung himself earlier this week after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother’s weekly pleas to the school to address the problem.

Last year we shared information about William Mayo ... a young brother from Cincinnati who was wrongfully convicted of murder. The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Parole reviewed William’s case in consideration for parole...