Over the past few years, the country has heard the harrowing story of my brother Kalief Browder, a 16 year-old who was jailed at Rikers Island for three years for allegedly stealing a backpack.

The bare facts about Kalief Browder’s experience with the criminal justice system are awful enough. Arrested at 16 after being accused of robbery. Locked up on Rikers Island for more than three ...

The song was inspired by Kalief Browder, a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years, after being falsely ...

On the second anniversary of Kalief's death, Akeem Browder speaks with ESSENCE about how his brother's story is transforming the criminal justice system. Two years after Kalief Browder’s death ...

This Saturday is the fifth anniversary of one of the most crushing entries on that list: June 6 is the day Kalief Browder passed after the three years he spent in Rikers Island—where he awaited ...

The city of New York has agreed to a $3.3 million settlement with the family of Kalief Browder, who spent three years at Rikers Island prison without being convicted of a crime and killed himself ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? New York’s justice system failed Kalief Browder. Now the city will pay his family $3.3 million. Browder’s incarceration and 2015 ...

The attorney representing the estate of Kalief Browder confirmed Friday that a settlement worth $3.3 million was reached. Kalief Browder, 22, killed himself in 2015 after he was released from ...

On Thursday, New York City's Law Department announced it had reached a $3.3 million settlement with Kalief Browder's family. The young man from the Bronx, who spent three years detained on Rikers ...