Kyle Rittenhouse will challenge his extradition to face homicide charges in Wisconsin over the killing of two protesters and wounding of a third, lawyers for the teenager told an Illinois judge Friday.
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The lawyer for the first Black inmate scheduled to die this year as part of the Trump administration’s resumption of federal executions says race played a central role in landing her client on death row for slaying a young white Iowa couple and burning them in the trunk of their car.
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In a rural Georgia county where Black voters are outnumbered by whites 2 to 1 at the polls despite being the majority population, an 11th Circuit dug into the thorny question Wednesday of whether discrimination is the only explanation.
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A grand jury presented its findings to a judge Wednesday afternoon about whether the three police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna should face criminal charges.
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A Louisiana state trooper has died following a single-vehicle highway crash that happened just hours after he learned he would be fired for his role last year in the in-custody death of a Black man.
Read moreClaiming her endorsement made Just Peachy wine a success, former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Claudia Jordan claims in a federal complaint that Wine Biagio Cru and Estate Wines hasn’t paid her since 2018 after deeming her public support of Black Lives Matter “too slanted.”
Read moreMaryland courts, and not federal courts, have an interest in ensuing the state’s medical cannabis licensing procedures are in accordance with state law, a federal court in the state ruled, dismissing a dispute involving claims of racial discrimination in the state’s medical cannabis grower application process.
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The First Circuit struggled Wednesday to figure out how far Harvard and other universities can go in using affirmative action to tilt the admissions process in favor of certain racial groups and against others.
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While researching U.S. Civil War history in South Texas, Roseann Bacha-Garza came across the two unique families of the Jacksons and the Webbers living along the Rio Grande. White men headed both families. Both of their wives were Black, emancipated slaves.
Read moreThe NAACP has sued the San Francisco Bay Area city of Palo Alto claiming its 1,400-acre Foothills Park is “a gated paradise that unconstitutionally excludes nonresidents” and a throwback to “an era when racial discrimination in and around the city was open and notorious.
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More than three-quarters of all coronavirus deaths in children and adults under 21 were among minorities, according to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The city of Louisville has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement agreement with the estate of police shooting victim Breonna Taylor that also reportedly includes various police reforms.
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The run-down, paint-chipped Detroit house where U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus boycott is going on display in Italy in a setting that couldn’t be more incongruous: the imposing central courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples.
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Resurrecting a nonprofit’s redlining-awareness campaign, the Third Circuit dropped the hammer Monday on bus advertising rules that bar topics considered political or otherwise inflammatory.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit revived a Black high school student’s harassment claims against a school board relating to the way his school treated him because of his “two toned” blonde hairstyle. The student claims he was punished for dyeing his hair when female students and students of other races were not, and he claims a dean ridiculed him for his hairstyle, calling him a “thug” and a ”fool.”
Read moreTwo Black Arkansas residents claim they were “viciously physically attacked” by a white mob at Saltgrass Steakhouse in Little Rock after managers refused to remove a group of patrons who were violating Covid-19 safety protocols.
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The divide between Democrats and Republicans on questions of race and gender has grown since the 2016 presidential election, according to a Pew Research Center report published Thursday.
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Kansas City Chiefs fans who file into Arrowhead Stadium Thursday for a masked and socially distanced start to the NFL season won’t be wearing headdresses or face paint amid a nationwide push for racial justice following the police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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As Hollywood searches for a response to the reckoning brought on by the death of George Floyd and the Academy Awards move to make Oscar nominees more inclusive, a new study captures how the film industry has improved in diversity and how it still lags.
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On June 26, 2019, elevator mechanic Leiroi Bowie arrived at a construction site to find a noose wrapped around a wooden barricade, right next to the elevator on which he was assigned to work.
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