The United States is being rocked by growing protests against the recent decisions by grand juries not to charge police officers who have killed African Americans. Angry protesters took to the streets in Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Miami, New Orleans and other major cities to demand justice for the victims of police brutality ...

[caption id="attachment_133045" align="alignright" width="159"] A pregnant black woman has lost her left eye after being shot by police in Ferguson.[/caption] A pregnant black woman has lost her left eye after being shot by a police officer in Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri, her family said on Friday. Dornella Conner, 24, was shot by a non-lethal ...

A number of activists have called on the American people to boycott the Black Friday shopping day in solidarity with an African-American teenager killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Angry about the failure to indict white police officer Darren Wilson who shot Michael Brown in August, the activists urged the boycott. Twitter users showed solidarity ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - More than 2,000 National Guard troops spread out across the St. Louis area on Tuesday to prevent another night of unrest after a grand jury declined to indict a white policeman in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager. As darkness fell, in a scene that appeared significantly more controlled than Monday night, dozens of ...

New violent protests triggered by a grand jury decision not to indict a police officer who killed a black teenager in Ferguson have prompted Russia and China to criticize the US for human rights issues and racial discrimination in the country. Russian Foreign Ministry's human rights envoy Konstantin Dolgov said on Tuesday the protests in Ferguson ...

[caption id="attachment_132217" align="alignright" width="196"] Protesters knock over police barricades in Union Square in New York on Monday. PETER FOLEY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY[/caption] Protests in a number of U.S. cities were primarily peaceful Monday night following the decision by a grand jury not to indict a Ferguson, Mo., police officer ...