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A little more than a year after a shooting left a Petersburg man dead and a Virginia State University student wounded just off campus, VSU student Ryan Christopher Simms will go on trial today on charges he killed a man in a drug rip-off scheme that went terribly wrong. The jury trial, which is scheduled to last four days, comes [...]

Shortly after graduating from Ohio’s Central State University in the spring, DeJuan Pratt moved to Chicago and enrolled in a masters program at Roosevelt University to further hone the “bright future” his mother said awaited him. The 24-year-old had just texted his family three days ago to discuss a job they helped line up, Pratt’s mother said Wednesday from Columbus, [...]

If you don’t know who Trayvon Martin is by now, then you may be shocked to hear about this tragic story. In a gated community by the name of Twin Lakes in Sanford, Florida on February 26th, 17 year old Martin was gunned down by 28 year old George Zimmerman -a self appointed neighborhood watch man. Zimmerman initially made claims [...]