Civil Rights & Social Justice

Civil Rights & Social Justice

In the wake of a racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, civil rights leaders met with league commissioner Roger Goodell to demand change to the so-called pro-diversity Rooney Rule that often defers to white head coaching applicants.

Eric Lindsay of Liberty Township, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against a Meijer grocery store and two police officers, Tanner Csendes and Timothy Mitkenbaugh, he accused of racially profiling him and detaining him illegally on  Jan. 29, 2021, while the officers were looking for a shoplifting suspect who is white.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

It's not enough to "reign in" no-knock warrants. The practice needs to end.

A judge handed down life in prison sentences for all three men convicted of murdering Arbery. Now, one month later the three men are back in court for federal proceedings. But how does the federal trial differ from the state trial?

The social media celebration of Sandra Bland's 35th birthday helped draw attention to all the ways her legacy lives on as her family keeps demanding justice nearly seven years after her controversial in-custody jail death.

The University of Alabama has added the name of Autherine Lucy Foster, its first Black student, to the Graves Hall campus building, named for Bibb Graves, a graduate of the university who was also notably a "Grand Cyclops" in the KKK.

Laquan McDonald's grandmother said Jason Van Dyke would still be in prison for murdering her Black teenage grandson if the former Chicago cop wasn't white. Van Dyke was released Thursday after serving less than half his sentence.

Critics say Missouri Senate Bill 666 (yes, really) -- dubbed the "Make Murder Legal Act" -- would shield killers from prosecution and protect the "lynching of Black men."

Civil Rights & Social Justice

A Louisville cop will go to jail for two years for excessive force against a protester during racial justice protests in May 2020.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

The FBI has offered a noncommittal response to the ongoing series of HBCU bomb threats while Black leaders are sounding the alarm and demanding a full investigation from federal law enforcement officials.