The professors were one of 11 entities that filed legal briefs on the issue, all of which advocated for all deaths in county jails to be independently investigated.

Michel Martin asks civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about changes in the legal landscape in the years since a former Minneapolis police officer was convicted of murder in George Floyd's death.

Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin took a trip to Minneapolis and spoke to the city's mayor Jacob ...

Police then bring him to the ground after the boy continues to resist. 'Open up the case': Sandra Bland's family wants answers after new video surfaces Officers hold him down on the parking lot ...

Sandra C. Wright, 87 ... She was born on May 2, 1937 in Asheville, NC, the second daughter of the late George Bland and Lenore Edwards Church. Mrs. Wright attended Carson-Newman College from ...

The Sandra Bland Act, named after a Black woman who died ... You failed his daughter. You failed our family.” ...

A Five-Year Retrospective on Portland’s Racial Justice Movement, a joint publication from Donovan Scribes and the Portland ...

In compliance with the Sandra Bland Act, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Texas Rangers will handle the investigation. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office internal affairs unit is ...

His family and lawyers, who provided Lee Enterprises ... Jailers apparently did not follow policies in place across Texas under the Sandra Bland Act or check for previous mental health through ...

The meeting was called to order by Keith Lyle, with Winston Rollins saying the invocation. Keith Lyle also adopted the agenda ...

Mystery deepens around the case of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman who headed south to Texas to start a new job and who was found dead in a jail cell earlier this month. Bland's police mugshot is ...