Minister Stephen Muhammad, who is with the Nation of Islam, has been going door-to-door and on the streets in Akron handing out cards that say "Stop the killing" on one side and list five street codes ...

Altgeld Gardens public housing project is on Chicago’s Far South Side, 18 miles from the city’s elegant downtown. It sits between a sewage treatment plant, a freeway, and the sludge-colored Little ...

In D.C. Superior Court not long ago, a man named Henry Wallace went on trial for murder. A friend was afraid that someone was out to kill him, so he paid Wallace to eliminate the threat. Such an ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — The “code of silence” on the streets is real and needs to be broken, Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge Kenneth Barnard said as he sentenced Maliek Hargrave to a lengthy prison sentence ...

No bouquets of flowers rest outside 2921 Knox Pl. SE. Not for Angelo Hursey. Not for Anthony Lucas. Not for Donieal Sadler. Not for any of the 10 young black men who have been killed in recent years ...

"Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, ...

Earlier this month, a young man turned up at a local hospital with stab wounds, and when questioned by Bakersfield police officers, he refused to divulge the details of his predicament, or to identify ...