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The jury also awarded McCollum and Brown $13 million in punitive damages. According to The Washington Post, the combined $75 million payout is the highest in U.S. history in a wrongful conviction case and is the largest personal injury award in North Carolina. McCollum and Brown, who have IQs in the 50’s, were both teenagers when law enforcement officers allegedly coerced them into confessing to a crime that they did not fully understand. McCollum was sentenced to death, while Brown was sentenced to life in prison. In 2014, the brothers were released from prison after the DNA of murderer ...

Wrongfully convicted North Carolina brothers get $75 million settlement By: Newsy and last updated 2021-05-17 16:44:07-04 Two Black men were awarded $75 million for being sentenced to death for a rape and murder they didn't commit. It may be the largest settlement for a wrongful conviction in North Carolina history. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, who both have intellectual disabilities, have been behind bars for 31 years. A jury decided each man should get $1 million for each year they were wrongfully imprisoned. The men say police coerced them into confessing and they used fa...

Two Brothers Get In-School Suspension For Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirts to School Image via John Holmes/Facebook 80 Two Black brothers from Oklahoma were removed from their elementary school classroom and isolated from students because they wore Black Lives Matter shirts. Ben Stapleton, 8, and his 5-year-old brother spent their entire day at school in the principal’s office at an Ardmore elementary school, Complex News reported. A week before this incident, Jordan Herbert, their mother, was suspicious about why her elder son’s BLM shirt was inside out. She was told the physical educat...

Chauvin verdict a start but not enough, say some Evansville Black residents EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Twice last summer, hundreds of protesters marched through Downtown streets under the watchful eye of Evansville Police officers in riot gear and members of the National Guard to demand racial justice and police reform. It was part of a national upswell following the police murder of a Black man named George Floyd in Minneapolis.  The killings of unarmed Black men, women and children have popped up in national headlines for years now, but last year felt different. Smaller protests continued...

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