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.
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Conservative High Court Likely to Reinstate Arizona Voting Limits
The court’s expected reversal carries implications for challengers of new voting laws cropping up in other parts of the country.
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6 Dr. Seuss Books Won’t Be Published for Racist Images
Six 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.
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Prisoners Face Severe Covid Risks Without Federal Vaccine Priority
Courthouse 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.
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Biden’s DOJ Picks Stir Controversy on Road to Confirmation
Three women are slated to serve top roles in the Department of Justice. Two of them have already faced conservative backlash.
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Court Filings Shine Light on Racial Tensions in St. Louis-Area Police Forces
A local minority police union says the battle against systemic racism within police departments has raged forever and is an issue throughout the country.
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Top Connecticut Court Grapples With Juror-Exclusion Prerogatives
Judges appeared leery this morning about whether jury questionnaires singling out distrust of authority unfairly exclude minority voices.
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Federal Judges Say Battle to End Racism Must Continue
Three 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.
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Student Organization Brings Race Bias Suit Against Yale
Weeks 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.
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Mother of Ahmaud Arbery Sues Three Men Charged With His Murder
Filed 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.
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Investigation Rebukes Police Over Death of Colorado Man
An independent review into the death of an unarmed Black man stopped by Aurora Police Department raises concerns and offers systemic solutions.
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Congressman’s Post-Riot Suit Could Dismantle Hate Groups
By 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.
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Black Churches Are Still a Force in US as Younger Generations Pull Away
In a deep dive into faith in America, a Pew study finds that Black Americans are more religious than the
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Case Dropped After Woman in Racist NYC Run-In Gets Therapy
Amy 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.
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Minority Jail Staffers Sue After Being Kept Away From Accused Floyd Killer
Minority 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.
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Civil Rights Groups Seek Overhaul of Worcester School Committee Elections
Civil 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.
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Utah Parents Drop Black History Curriculum Opt-Out Request
Parents who sought to opt out their children from learning Black History Month curriculum at a charter school in northern Utah have withdrawn their requests.
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A 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.
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‘There Was No Trust’: Apartheid Ghosts Stalk S.Africa’s Vaccine Fears
White-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.
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New York Under Fire for Vaccinating Prison Staff, Not Inmates
People 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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