Lonnie Roland Shackleford, 79, passed away on November 5, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born on November 21, 1943, in Phoenix, Arizona.

She was born May 23, 1944 in Greenfield, Ohio to the late John and Violet Howland Cottrell. On March 9, 1961 she married Lonnie Shackleford who survives.

State Rep. Robin Shackleford announced Thursday she will seek the Democratic nomination to run for Indianapolis mayor. (IBJ photo/Taylor Wooten) State Rep. Robin Shackleford, the chair of the ...

As a jury decides Lonnie Franklin's fate, Margaret Prescod says the killer got away with murder for years because black women’s lives didn’t matter.

Robin Shackleford is chair of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus, a caucus of Black lawmakers that works to develop policies and pass laws that will positively impact minority communities ...

Lonnie Franklin, Jr. aka The Grim Sleeper was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing 10 Black women in the Los Angeles area between 1985 and 2007. Why didn’t the LAPD say anything?

Former Little Rock Mayor Lottie Shackleford is living Arkansas history. She's worked in local, state, and national politics for over 40 years. In the 80s, she became the first woman elected to ...

In 1980s Los Angeles, as the city reeled amid the crack cocaine epidemic and gang warfare, the bodies of Black women were repeatedly found stashed in alleyways. Debra Jackson, a single mother of three ...

Triple negative breast cancer is aggressive and hard to treat. It also disproportionately affects Black women. A University of Kansas medical researcher is working to find out why and expand ...

New Era Cap Presents Sports Power Brunch™ Women in Baseball Honoring Trailblazers -- Raquel Ferreira (Boston Red Sox), Catie Griggs (Baltimore Orioles), and Lonnie Murray (Sports Management ...

If elected, Shackleford would be the city’s first Black and first woman mayor. Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett told News 8 on Wednesday he is “50/50” on seeking another term in the office.