New York City’s most ethnically diverse borough, the landing point for and home to many of the city’s immigrants, will head to the polls Tuesday for a primary that will help decide whether their next top prosecutor will target U.S. immigration officials who violate civil rights.
Read moreWith a 7-2 vote Friday, the Supreme Court vacated a death-penalty conviction in a case where a Mississippi prosecutor had a track record of eliminating black jurors.
Read moreThe debate over reparations for descendants of slaves catapulted from the campaign trail to Congress on Wednesday with an impassioned plea from actor Danny Glover and others for lawmakers to address compensation for America’s blighted heritage of racism and Jim Crow laws.
Read moreA New Jersey appeals court on Tuesday restored many of the powers that Newark gave its newly created civilian police review board, reversing a judge who had defanged the board.
Read morePolice Chief Jeri Williams promised change in her department after being booed by hundreds of people gathered Tuesday night to discuss a videotaped police encounter that has caused a national outcry
Read moreDespite the country’s low unemployment rate, 18% of U.S. children, or 13.4 million, are living in poverty and inequities among black, Latino and Native American youth compared to their white peers have persisted for nearly three decades, according to a new report.
Read moreThe Supreme Court blocked Republican lawmakers 5-4 on Monday from appealing a ruling that found they had gerrymandered voting districts to hurt black voters.
Read moreThe U.S. Marshals Service said it will conduct an internal review after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation finishes its investigation into a task force’s fatal shooting of a 20-year-old black man it was trying to arrest Wednesday night, which sparked riots that injured 25 police officers.
Read moreHoping to eliminate the unconscious bias that influences criminal charging decisions, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon unveiled new open-source technology that promises to “take race out of the equation” for prosecutors.
Read moreWith the White House now asserting executive privilege, lawmakers investigating the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census are delaying Wednesday a vote that would hold two Trump officials in contempt.
Read moreThirteen police officers claim in a federal complaint that the promotion policies of the city and county of San Francisco discriminate against white people.
Read moreLawyers for a man who claims he was fired by a small Missouri town for political reasons argued Tuesday before the Eighth Circuit that he should given a new trial because a black potential juror was struck on the basis of race.
Read moreTaking up appeals by Comcast and Intel, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to resolve the fate of one $20 billion suit alleging a conspiracy to disadvantage television networks that are wholly black-owned, as well as a case involving retirement plans.
Read moreClosing New York City’s case against the police officer who killed Eric Garner in an illegal chokehold, a prosecutor repeated Garner’s now-immortal last words.
Read morePolice departments in at least five states are investigating, and in some cases condemning, their officers’ social media feeds after the weekend publication of a database that appears to catalog thousands of bigoted or violent posts by active-duty and former cops.
Read moreThe city of Eastpointe, Michigan agreed to a settlement with the Department of Justice Wednesday to change the process of how city council members are elected. The city was sued by the DOJ over allegations they did not provide an equal voting system for their citizens.
Read moreFake news outstripped racism, climate change and immigration for most Americans polled about problems confronting the country, a Pew survey unveiled Wednesday shows.
Read moreAs part of an ongoing effort to remove extremist and violent content from its site, YouTube said Wednesday it will ban videos that use racist, white supremacist ideology to justify violence and discrimination.
Read moreThe Trump administration has cut federal spending to tackle domestic terrorism as violent episodes of white supremacist extremism continue to play out, and House Democrats demanded answers Tuesday from FBI and Homeland Security officials about how the agencies plan to solve the problem with inadequate resources.
Read moreA federal judge in Los Angeles dropped all charges against three men charged with inciting riots across California as part of a white nationalist group, finding their actions were protected speech.
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