Could y’all come and see,” Massey ... Picture: Illinois State Police The 20-second video of the police shooting rocked America and was seen around the world as just another example of a white ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman shot and killed in her home last summer by a ...

Jim Crow laws were rigidly enforced at the time, but it was not unusual for Black and white children to play together when their separate, segregated schools let out for the day. They knew each other.