Civil Rights & Social Justice
The family of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, a young teenage girl killed last week after the LAPD shot recklessly at a suspect in a department store and struck her while she was trying on a dress, will be legally represented by civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
Coverage that picks a part statements to inflame false controversy only furthers misinformation.
The president's comments Friday reflect a significant turn from early remarks such as telling people they will have to out-organize voter suppression yet again.
Former police officer Kim Potter testified in her own defense and appeared to cry when discussing her killing of Daunte Wright. However, her dry eyes suggested she was simply shedding "white tears" to angle for an acquittal.
An autopsy performed on Glenn Foster Jr., who was found dead in an Alabama jail earlier this month, suggests that the former professional football player may have been strangled or suffered some other trauma to his neck before he died, Ben Crump and his legal team said.
The son of a suspected white supremacist Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet in Louisiana who starred in a home video showing the family repeatedly using the N-word has been revealed to be anti-mask amid reports his disgraced mother has stepped away from the bench -- but not resigned.
Louisiana state officials refuse to release Sneed despite two separate court decisions ordering his release.
Nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump is filing a lawsuit against Louisiana's agency overseeing child welfare over years-old allegations that Black children were sexually abused by "wealthy white men" while in the state's custody.
While Jussie Smollett's claim of being the victim of a racist hate crime is not exactly apples-to-apples with the infamous Tawana Brawley case from more than 30 years earlier, the two instances share a number of notable -- and unfortunate -- similarities.
During a recent press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Marjorie Taylor Greene said alleged Jan. 6 Capitol rioters who have been jailed after being accused of some of the most serious crimes of the event are being discriminated against because of what they believe in and "because of the color of their skin."