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July 2, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sheriff's deputies in two desert cities northeast of Los Angeles unlawfully targeted blacks living in public…
June 26, 2013
COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP) - Much has changed in Shelby County since Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to protect…
January 17, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Civil rights advocates say harsh disciplinary practices at many Mississippi schools lead to children being expelled…
November 16, 2012
(AP) - BP's $4.5 billion settlement of federal criminal charges in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico…
November 15, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP said Thursday that it will pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government…
November 2, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 780 federal observers and Justice Department employees will be dispatched to 51 voting jurisdictions in…
September 19, 2012
NBC NEWS - A long-awaited report on the U.S. government’s controversial gun-trafficking operation known as 'Fast and Furious' released Wednesday…
August 21, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Justice Department is establishing a civil rights unit in Alabama after the state's crackdown on…
August 14, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Monday threw its support behind the University of Texas' use of race as…
July 26, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -— A court-backed plan to excise corruption, discrimination and a frequent use of deadly force from the…
July 26, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Republicans are striking out against the Justice Department, saying its decision to contest several state voter…
July 24, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a series of court-supervised reforms of the New Orleans Police…
July 24, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of Pennsylvania's new voter-ID…
July 23, 2012
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - The entire U.S. government seems to be lined up against Westchester County these days...
July 12, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wells Fargo Bank will pay at least $175 million to settle accusations that it discriminated against African-American…
June 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department declared Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to withhold information about a bungled…
June 19, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder wants a House panel to drop plans to try to hold him in…
June 15, 2012
Over 60 men like Terrell McCullum are presently behind bars for carrying a gun, but it's not a crime at…
June 14, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder is proposing to meet with Rep. Darrell Issa by Monday to settle a…
June 7, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - New York officials are asking the Justice Department to investigate the police department's stop-and-frisk program for overwhelmingly…