Feds take lead against immigration foes in race for justice
OPINION - By establishing its ultimate authority to regulate immigration policy, the federal government has snatched the baton from its wayward teammates...
Ogletree: Gates arrest put racial profiling in spotlight
VIDEO - Ogletree is the author of 'The Presumption of Guilt' which examines the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., as well as race, class and crime in America...
Study on Henry Gates arrest: Cambridge police don't use racial profiling
The report by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, which was published Thursday in the Boston Globe...
Ind. teen's police beating brings calls for probe
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The city's police chief called Thursday for the firing of a white officer who he said repeatedly struck a 15-year-old biracial boy in the face...
Prosecutor: Anger led to Oscar Grant killing
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Attorney's say the white officer accidentally used a handgun instead of a stun gun on an unarmed black man. Prosecutors use video to dispute this claim...
Jury selection begins in Oscar Grant shooting trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The trial could be the most racially polarizing of it's kind in California since four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted of beating Rodney King in 1992...
Attorney General Holder vows to take on hate crimes
WASHINGTON (AP) - The attorney general said an internal Justice Department review is under way of a 2003 directive banning racial profiling at all 70 federal agencies...
Racial disparity growing in Mo. traffic stops
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's 10th annual traffic stop analysis shows black motorists were 70 percent more likely than white drivers to be stopped by law enforcement officers in 2009...
Immigration law protesters march on Ariz. capitol
PHOENIX (AP) - Thousands of people from around the country marched to the Arizona state capitol to protest the state's tough new crackdown on illegal immigration...
Police chiefs voice concerns on Ariz. immigration law
WASHINGTON (AP) - The new law "puts Arizona law enforcement right in the middle" at a time when police budgets are already in crisis, said John Harris, president of the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police...
