SC sues Justice Dept. over voter ID laws
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) - South Carolina is suing the U.S. Justice Department, saying it was wrong to block the state from requiring people to show government-issued photo identification to vote...
Justice Dept says recent recess appointments legal
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is defending the legality of President Barack Obama's recent recess appointment of a national consumer watchdog and other officials from criticism by Republicans...
Justice Dept blocks South Carolina voter ID law
TheGrio REPORT -- The Justice Department on Friday moved to block South Carolina's voter ID law, saying it unfairly burdens non-white voters...
Presidential pardons heavily favor whites
ProPublica - Blacks have had the poorest chance of receiving the president's ultimate act of mercy, according to an analysis of previously unreleased records and related data...
The cost of closing civil rights era cold cases
OPINION - For African-Americans, the stakes are high. Black people still suffer from wounds of the civil rights movement, and remember the reluctance of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to go after civil rights murders...
Justice Department to investigate Miami police shootings
MIAMI - The U.S. Justice Department is launching a civil investigation into the policies and training involving deadly force in the Miami Police Department...
Sharpton to feds: Take over death penalty cases
theGrio REPORT - National Action Network president and television host Rev. Al Sharpton is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to take over death penalty cases in the wake of Troy Davis' execution...
Violent crime plunges 12 percent in US in 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Experts aren't sure why. The expectation had been that crime would increase in a weak economy with high unemployment like that seen in 2010...
How Obama has subtly reached out on race
OPINION - He is aware of the history of race and racism in this country and ingrained inequality of our social and political structures...
RNC chair accuses Obama of 'criminal behavior'
WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Republican National Committee is asking for a Justice Department investigation of President Barack Obama over a fundraising video...
