Caddy Crush
Kevin Beasley, a contemporary Black artist, claims in court that Bayview Auto Wreckers secretly swapped a less expensive Cadillac Escalade out for the 2008 model that he had hired them to crush as part of an art installation.
Read moreKevin Beasley, a contemporary Black artist, claims in court that Bayview Auto Wreckers secretly swapped a less expensive Cadillac Escalade out for the 2008 model that he had hired them to crush as part of an art installation.
Read moreThe court’s expected reversal carries implications for challengers of new voting laws cropping up in other parts of the country.
Read moreSix Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday.
Read moreCourthouse News reached out to experts about the dangers of being incarcerated and unvaccinated, and how policies can shift to ease health disparities compounded by the coronavirus.
Read moreThree women are slated to serve top roles in the Department of Justice. Two of them have already faced conservative backlash.
Read moreA local minority police union says the battle against systemic racism within police departments has raged forever and is an issue throughout the country.
Read moreJudges appeared leery this morning about whether jury questionnaires singling out distrust of authority unfairly exclude minority voices.
Read moreThree federal judges who have fought to advance civil rights in their careers shared their perspectives on what must be done to protect voting rights and combat racial bias in the criminal justice system.
Read moreWeeks after the Biden administration said it would not pursue an admissions bias suit against Yale University, a student group sued the Connecticut Ivy League school.
Read moreFiled on the one-year anniversary of Arbery’s death, the lawsuit claims local police and two prosecutors tried to cover up the fatal shooting of her 25-year-old son by their three co-defendants.
Read moreAn independent review into the death of an unarmed Black man stopped by Aurora Police Department raises concerns and offers systemic solutions.
Read moreBy invoking the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, the federal complaint against former President Donald Trump and his associates implicates far more reaching consequences than civil damages.
Read moreIn a deep dive into faith in America, a Pew study finds that Black Americans are more religious than the
Read moreAmy Cooper, the white woman arrested last year for calling 911 on a Black birdwatcher in New York’s Central Park, had her criminal case thrown out Tuesday after completing a diversionary counseling program that prosecutors said was meant to educate her on the harm of her actions.
Read moreMinority correctional officers at St. Paul’s Ramsey County Adult Detention Center filed a race discrimination suit against the county Tuesday, claiming their boss segregated jail staff last May in order to keep Black officers off the floor housing fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Read moreCivil rights groups in New England’s second largest city have raised a Voting Rights Act challenge against the city’s process for electing school district leadership, alleging that its winner-take-all apprach allows white voters to control a public school system where nonwhite students are the majority.
Read moreParents who sought to opt out their children from learning Black History Month curriculum at a charter school in northern Utah have withdrawn their requests.
Read moreA Black woman working as an Omaha firefighter filed a lawsuit against the city after she said she faced verbal abuse from coworkers and found her gear hung from a station flagpole in a way that simulated “a public hanging or lynching.” She said she had to take a leave of absence after the city did nothing.
Read moreWhite-minority rule was swept away a generation ago but faith in South Africa’s government today, its reputation undermined by corruption and incompetence, is poor.
Read morePeople in the corrections system have been eligible to get the Covid-19 vaccine for the past month — so long as they are personnel.
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