The injustice surrounding the shooting death of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins at a South Central Los Angeles store became a flashpoint for the city’s 1992 civil uprising. As the Black community ...

who was raising Latasha and her siblings after their mother’s death. Shortly after her niece passed away, the former set up The Latasha Harlins Justice Committee. Its purpose was to overturn the ...

In 1991, she became a Superior Court judge, which was around the time when Latasha Harlins was shot to death. Even though Soon Ja Du, the accused, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter following ...

"Mr. Blaney’s untimely death, caused by a fatal heart attack while in custody at the Chemung County Jail, underscores ...

according to her family who said the coroner's office confirmed LaTasha Polk's death on Saturday. The coroner's office said all the victims died from blunt force injuries. The suspect in the ...

Zion Parsons, 18, talks about the death of his friend ... (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) CORRECTS NAME TO LATASHA NOT TASHA Courtney Polk, cousin of LaTasha Polk, who was killed in the New Year's ...

Her family said they were notified of her death on Saturday morning. "It was the wrong call we got, but at least we got the call," LaTasha Polk's cousin, Sebastian Polk, told the Associated Press.

But after her death, they believed, LaTasha would have wanted the city to turn out in celebration — tinged with grief, perhaps, but not fear. A hard worker from New Orleans' Treme neighborhood ...