The lawsuit, filed by local civil rights attorney David Rudovsky in partnership with Berger Montague, a national class-action law firm based in Philadelphia, seeks unspecified compensation and damages for boys who were abused as students at the Glen Mills Schools, the oldest existing U.S. reform school. The attorneys also are asking the court to compel […]

The first gathering of the nation’s Catholic bishops since this summer’s wave of anger and recrimination at the hierarchy’s handling of clergy sex-abuse opened Monday with a stunning announcement: The prelates would not take a promised vote on a series of new accountability measures– and it was the Vatican that ordered them to hold off. […]

GRIFF and Erica Campbell talk about domestic violence with in-studio guest Pat Smith.

In this edition of Love Talking, Erica Campbell notes that not everybody comes from healthy home or church situations; and many people are harassed or abused in these spaces. It’s important to know that If somebody constantly demeans and disrespects you, that’s not love. Erica urges us to remember that it’s okay to remove ourselves […]

Newly released surveillance video disproves a Georgia school's initial claim that a 13-year-old student was able to walk after being slammed to the ground several times by a teacher--resulting in an amputation of the student's right leg.

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Fourteen-year-old Bresha Meadows took the life of her father in July. She is currently behind bars on charges of aggravated murder. But Bresha’s family is calling her a “hero,” who saved them all from the verbally and physically abusive Jonathan Meadows. Police allege Bresha shot her father as he slept in their Warren, Ohio home, using the same gun with which […]

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A Georgia grandmother is demanding answers after her grandson with special needs was allegedly found hanging by his belt from the chalkboard as a form of punishment administered by his teacher, reports the New York Daily News. Tracy Davis says the principal at Shoal Creek Elementary School in Conyers, Georgia found the 5-year-old in the disturbing […]

Bishop Secular receives a letter from an abuse victim reaching out so their voice can be heard. He shows his support from them by making sure their…

GETTY Article By Trisha Brookes:: EEW Magazine News A few years ago, GRAMMY®-nominated R&B singer/songwriter Jazmine Sullivan was in an abusive relationship that stripped away…

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert‘s alleged sexual abuse of a male student over 30 years ago when he was a high school teacher may not…

Credit: GETTY Accused of more than 15 cases of abuse, actor and comedian Bill Cosby’s reputation has been all but ruined by the media’s publishing…