Weighing grand jury secrecy against the historical significance of unreleased records about a 1946 mob lynching in Georgia, the en banc 11th Circuit ruled Friday that grand jury transcripts from the unsolved Moore’s Ford case cannot be unsealed.
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A Dutch court ruled Wednesday that a TV news program does not have to correct itself for paraphrasing racially charged remarks made by a far-right politician.
Read moreA delivery driver claims in federal court that Los Angeles sheriff’s officers beat the hell out of him for no reason at all, while hurling racial epithets at him, then jailed him for 11 hours, also for no reason.
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Comcast struck a blow against a black media mogul accusing it of discrimination as the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Ninth Circuit applied the wrong standard in reviving the case.
Read moreLinda Fairstein, former head of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit, claims Netflix and Ava DuVernay defamed her in the movie “When They See Us,” about the prosecution of the Central Park Five rape and assault case, in federal court.
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Coinciding with President Donald Trump’s efforts to label the COVID-19 pandemic a “Chinese virus,” a nonprofit that studied all the hate crimes committed in 2019 reported Wednesday that the number of white-nationalist groups are on the rise.
Read moreA federal court in Illinois dismissed free speech and privacy claims brought by two former police officers who were fired after their conversation about how to drink alcohol and sleep on the job was unintentionally broadcast over a state police radio channel and recorded. The conversation also included racist remarks about black coworkers.
Read moreDemocratic presidential hopefuls Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders secured crucial endorsements Sunday from prominent black supporters just days ahead of the first round of voting to pit them in a head-to-head contest.
Read moreA city employee sued Florence, Alabama in federal court, claiming it discriminated and retaliated against him because he’s black, and that though 18.6% of city residents are black, only 5 of the city’s 125 employees are.
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As a self-professed son of the segregated South who has spent a lifetime — and eight terms in Congress — rejecting discrimination, Representative Al Green is a man for whom words have immense power.
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Former Illinois Supreme Court Justice Charles Freeman, the first African American to serve on the state’s high court, died Monday. He was 86.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden held a rally at a historic black college in Houston on Monday, reinforcing his ties to a core constituency that revived his campaign ahead of crucial Super Tuesday primary elections.
Read moreSix public interest groups, including Common Cause Illinois, sued the Illinois secretary of state and State Board of Elections in federal court, claiming they have failed to implement the Automatic Voter Registration law of 2017, exacerbating difficulties people of color and young people have in voting.
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A South African court on Friday handed a two-year suspended sentence to a man who used a racial slur in a beach holiday video.
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Major League Baseball has appointed its first African American umpire crew chief, promoting Kerwin Danley to the position this week.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards asked a state court judge to step down Wednesday after the judge acknowledged she had used racist slurs – including the N-word – in reference to two black officials in her district.
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It took more than 100 years but the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to finally make lynching, a barbaric tool of social and racial control, a federal hate crime.
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Testifying before House lawmakers about barriers minorities face in exercising their right to vote, the reputed mother of the Civil Rights Movement took aim Wednesday at a Supreme Court decision that gutted the federal law her activism helped augur in 1965.
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