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Cedric Richmond, Biden senior advisor and director of Public Engagement, reflects on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and voting rights.
Activist-journalist Ida B. Wells' legacy lives on in Barbie's Inspiring Women Series, with help from great-granddaughter Michelle Duster.
Virginia’s attorney general is taking legal action against a small town’s police department for discrimination against Black residents.
A pardon request in a 2004 drug conviction for George Floyd has now been withdrawn by Texas officials and there's…
The family of the pan-Africanism leader is urging President Joe Biden to pardon his 1923 conviction for mail fraud.
Alabama’s capital city faces penalty for renaming Jeff Davis Avenue after Fred D. Gray, a lawyer known for his work…
Sophia A. Nelson unpacks what the legal codes say in terms of federal prosecutors holding Rittenhouse accountable after contentious verdict.
The city of Aurora's settlement in the civil rights suit brought by McClain's parents is reportedly the highest in Colorado…
The federal government is investigating a Texas school district for repeated civil rights violations after a viral video.
Sherrilyn Ifill will leave the NAACP Legal Defense Fund next year to write a book and do other things. Janai…
Claudette Colvin's fight to remove arrest records from protesting 70 years ago could lead to more expungements for activists.
A legal team representing Colvin says it plans to file paperwork to have the now-82-year-old woman's arrest from 1955 expunged.
A new exhibit prompts visitors to speak the names of people who were killed in acts of racist violence during…
Jacqueline Jackson will be released from a Chicago hospital where she has been treated for COVID-19, her family said in…
Former Philadelphia police detectives were arrest for perjury which led to an innocent Black man, Anthony Wright, being wrongly convicted.
Changes to qualified immunity, which protects bad officers, have little chance of making it into the George Floyd Justice in…
The National Labor Relations Board complaint says the Minneapolis Home Depot worker wore the slogan on his apron.
King was 26 when the Montgomery Improvement Association met at Mt. Zion AME Church on Dec. 5, 1955, the first…
An anti-lynching bill stalled in the Senate last year after Sen. Rand Paul singlehandedly kept it from passing into law.
Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III hosted a call on August 5 to honor the 56th anniversary of…