The white Chicago police officer who gunned down a black teenager in 2014 was sentenced Friday to nearly seven years in prison, bringing an end to a historic case that centered on a shocking dashcam video and fueled the national debate over race and law enforcement.
Read morejudge rejected allegations that the shocking video of Laquan McDonald’s death proved that Chicago police officers tried to stage a cover-up in the fatal shooting of the black teen. Now another judge must decide how long the officer who pulled the trigger spends behind bars.
Read moreThe House of Representatives on Tuesday rebuked Rep. Steve King for comments he made to The New York Times questioning how the phrases “white nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization” have “become offensive.”
Read moreEnvironmental groups and Louisiana residents of a rural, majority-black area on the Mississippi River filed a records request Monday seeking answers to why St. James Parish officials “basically changed the black district into the petrochemical district.”
Read moreOn the road to oral arguments this spring, the U.S. Supreme Court shot down a bid late Tuesday to preserve Virginia election districts that were found to be racially gerrymandered.
Read moreA California man with alleged ties to a white nationalist group that incited riots across the state last year was released on bond Friday.
Read moreAn attorney and an activist are offering a $75,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a white man who shot into a black woman’s car in Houston and killed her 7-year-old daughter.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit agreed Wednesday to hold an en banc rehearing of claims by the Democratic National Committee that the Arizona secretary of state and Republican Party suppress minority voting.
Read moreAmid fierce debate over whether charter schools are good for black students, the heirs to the Walmart company fortune have been working to make inroads with advocates and influential leaders in the black community.
Read moreChanging the books to make lynching a federal crime, the Senate unanimously passed a measure Wednesday that has failed more than 200 times before.
Read moreSetiam and Katherine Allah, an interracial couple, sued Lifetime Entertainment Services et al. for punitive damages in L.A. Superior Court, claiming that without consent “their family portrait was displayed as a prop in a Lifetime original movie [‘Christmas Harmony’], and then insulted for cheap laughs.”
Read moreWhen successive recruitment scandals embroiled its men’s basketball program, the University of Connecticut fired the coach who is black and allowed the coach who is white to resign. On Monday the school was hit with a federal discrimination complaint.
Read moreAttorneys for the Georgia chapter of the NAACP asked the 11th Circuit on Friday to reverse the dismissal of its lawsuit claiming one Peach State city’s policies for providing utility services discriminate against minorities in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
Read moreAttorneys for Alabama asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to overturn a federal judge’s refusal to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit claiming the state’s method of electing judges is unfair to black voters.
Read moreA Mississippi appeals court reversed and remanded a 60-year sentence without possibility of parole, as well as a $2 million fine against Dennis Beal, a black man who was convicted of selling one-tenth of a gram of cocaine for $30.
Read moreA jury Tuesday called for a sentence of life in prison plus 419 years for the Hitler admirer who killed a woman when he rammed his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville two summers ago.
Read moreA man convicted of first-degree murder for driving his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia faces 20 years to life in prison as jurors reconvene to consider his punishment.
Read moreA man who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia was convicted Friday of first-degree murder for killing a woman in an attack that inflamed long-simmering racial and political tensions across the country.
Read moreBritain’s Secret Intelligence Service director used a rare public speech Monday to outline threats facing Britain and the need for more diversity in secret agent ranks.
Read moreA federal judge found it constitutional Wednesday for transit officials in greater Philadelphia to block an advertising campaign that called out racial disparities in mortgage lending.
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