Civil Rights & Social Justice

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."

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

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.

Paulk's offer of a reward comes after Johnson's parents recently expressed their displeasure with his findings in the case.

The U.S. Department of Justice is defending its decision to offer a plea deal to the convicted murderers of Ahmaud Arbery, but an attorney representing the deceased jogger's family is pushing back on the feds' narrative.

The students stress that their issue is not with Shapiro expressing a preference for a particular candidate but his assertion that no Black woman nominated would be qualified. 

In 2020, more than 21,000 Georgians—including Kemp, who requested his ballot on Election Day—cast their ballots within 11 days of the November 3 contest, something that is no longer possible due to the new law.