Looking to quell a national debate that was sparked by Colin Kaepernick, stoked by President Trump and some say chipped away at the very popularity of America’s game, NFL owners approved a new policy Wednesday that allows players to protest during the national anthem by staying in the locker room but forbids them from sitting or taking a knee if they’re on the field.
Read moreThe Milwaukee Police Department released a video Wednesday afternoon showing police arresting and using a stun gun on NBA player Sterling Brown, who said he will sue over the incident.
Read moreBefore they reach adolescence, black children are twice as likely to commit suicide as white children between the ages of 5 and 12, according to a new study.
Read moreA Florida woman claims in court she was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight after a white passenger seated next to her claimed to be allergic to black people.
Read moreA formal grievance letter filed with court officials Thursday takes aim at a lawyer identified in a viral video where a white man threatens New York City restaurant workers with deportation.
Read moreOverruling the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard’s objections, a federal judge in Louisiana ordered David Duke to produce his communications with the organizers of last year’s deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Read moreThe former research director for embattled data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica told senators on Wednesday the company conducted “voter disengagement” efforts meant to keep minority voters at home during the 2016 presidential election.
Read moreOver 65,000 people were arrested and booked by the Los Angeles Police Department in 2017 and were levied over $3.6 billion in bail money, according to a study released Tuesday.
Read moreThe Manhattan district attorney’s office said Tuesday it will no longer prosecute people for possessing and smoking marijuana, a move that will sharply reduce the low-level criminal charges that overwhelmingly affect black and Hispanic people.
Read moreRestrictions on Arizona voting purportedly aimed at reducing voter fraud do not impose an undue burden on minorities and were not intended to, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a 2016 lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee and Arizona Democratic Party.
Read moreA coalition of privacy protection advocates on Tuesday demanded that two Los Angeles Police Department crime predicting programs be dismantled, claiming they disproportionately target those who are low-income or people of color and that they collect data on individuals without consent.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed Monday that Maricopa County, Arizona, is liable for former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s racially discriminatory traffic stops of Latinos.
Read moreShouting “Nigger, we will fucking kill you,” four Barstow, Calif., police officers, one of whom had previously been charged with a hate crime, shot to death Diante Yarber, 26, in a Walmart parking lot in April, relatives of the father of three claim in a federal complaint.
Read moreTwo black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks without ordering anything settled with the city Wednesday for a symbolic $1 each and a promise from officials to set up a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs.
Read moreMilwaukee reportedly approved a $1.9 million payment Monday to settle a class action brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin claiming city police used abusive stop-and-frisk tactics motivated by race and ethnicity.
Read moreAmerican University’s first black female student government president sued the owner a neo-Nazi website and some of its loyal readers Monday over online threats and other harassment she’s been subjected to since her inauguration.
Read moreFormer death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal is in court asking a judge to vacate his previous failed appeals attempts, so he can again appeal his case.
Read moreA divided Fifth Circuit upheld Texas’ new voter ID law Friday, concluding the state’s overhaul of the law adequately addressed concerns it had intentionally discriminated against black and Hispanic voters.
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