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The NAACP wants "increased transparency, appropriate police improvements, and a community dialogue concerning the effects of qualified immunity."

A grand jurys decision not to indict a Canton police officer who fatally shot a Canton man evoked a mix of responses from city and community leaders.

Marquetta Williams wants people to remember her husband, James Williams. He was shot and killed by police just after midnight on New Years Eve.

Professor Jean Engohang-Ndong talks about Enkaza-Bridging The Gap.

Stark County NAACP asks Canton to revisit Police Department policies and training following the fatal police shooting just after midnight on Jan. 1.

When Antioch Baptist bought Arlington Avenue Church of God, the deal blossomed into a new friendship.

Weekend fun: Canton Symphonys pops concert, Carpenters tribute in Massillon, Canton Brewerys SantaCon, Oddmall in Green, Village of Shops at Oakwood

In January, Charles Keith became a "professional abolitionist" against the death penalty, taking a job as a community liaison with the Death Penalty Action Network. The goal of the advocacy group started by Abraham Bonowitz and Scott Langley is to eliminate that form of punishment. The group argues the death penalty should be eliminated because too many innocent people have been wrongfully executed and that poor Black men in particular have been disproportionately penalized. About the Dea...

Then, Hardings husband looked at her. "He had conviction in his eyes," she recalled. "We have to get the vaccine because we are African Americans in the medical field," he said to her. "That was my confirmation," Harding said. Vaccine distrust A disproportionate number of them are from minority communities. Black Americans are 1.1 times more likely to contract COVID-19, nearly 3 times as likely to be hospitalized, and nearly twice as likely to die from the disease, according to data from the ...