Shreveport law may unfairly target blacks
Ola Mae Kelly knows walking in the street is dangerous. But the 56-year-old also knows sometimes walking on the sidewalk can be equally so...
Delaware movie theater sued for quieting black audience
At a 2007 showing of Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married in a Dover, Delaware movie theater, the manager of the cinema is alleged to have told a large group of patrons to "be quiet and behave."...
Defiant Clarence Thomas fires back at critics
He also lashed out at his critics, without naming them, asserting they "seem bent on undermining" the High Court as an institution...
How Tasers take a bigger toll on black community
OPINION - To this day, African-Americans are the most likely group to be shot by law enforcement and to have Taser guns used against them...
Clarence Thomas's silence on bench is anything but golden
OPINION - There's a method to his silence, and the method is to encode his retrograde court stamp on law and public policy...
No argument: Clarence Thomas keeps 5-year silence on bench
In the past 40 years, no other justice has gone an entire term, much less five, without speaking at least once during arguments...
Judge raises questions about Voting Rights Act
WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge Bates' comments came during oral arguments in an Ala. county's lawsuit targeting the law -- one that a number of legal observers predict could reach the Supreme Court...
Senate Republicans forcing a vote on health law
WASHINGTON (AP) - The showdown approached as lawmakers in both parties agreed the law's fate rests with the Supreme Court, not Congress...
Ivy League case tests Rockefeller drug law change
NEW YORK (AP) - They were students who juggled an elite education with criminal extracurriculars, dealing an array of drugs from dormitory rooms and fraternity houses, prosecutors say...
Only in America: Breaking the law to get kids in a better school
OPINION - Kelley Williams-Bolar was convicted of fraud, for a very common practice often utilized in many lower income communities...
