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A second suspect was arrested Tuesday in connection to the mass shooting in Sacramento, and police say he is the brother of the first suspect. More
April 5, 2022
A New York man who spent nearly 40 years trying to clear his name after a jury tainted by antisemitism wrongfully convicted him of arson... More
April 5, 2022
Sacramento police arrested Dandrae Martin, a man connected to the shooting that killed six people and wounded a dozen others as multiple shooters fired more... More
April 4, 2022
President Joe Biden signs The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law -- lynching is now a federal hate crime. More
March 29, 2022
Three Muslim Americans filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that U.S. border officers questioned them about their religious beliefs in violation of their constitutional rights when... More
March 24, 2022
Former Google employee sued tech giant for racial discrimination saying it engages in "pattern and practice" of unfair treatment for Black workers. More
March 21, 2022
Relatives of Emmett Till joined with supporters Friday in asking authorities to reverse their decision to close an investigation of his 1955 lynching and instead... More
March 11, 2022
Congress gave final approval to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S., sending the bill to... More
March 7, 2022
President Joe Biden on Friday will reportedly nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. More
February 25, 2022
Fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three teams on Tuesday over alleged racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers, saying... More
February 1, 2022
Two police detectives in Connecticut's largest city have been suspended amid investigations into allegations of insensitivity in their handling of separate cases in which Black... More
January 31, 2022
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An appellate court is preparing to hear arguments over a lawsuit challenging South Carolina's More
January 26, 2022
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring Breyer, 83, has been a pragmatic force on a court that has grown increasingly conservative in recent years,... More
January 26, 2022
Wyoming's first Black sheriff last year fired a high-ranking white deputy who is accused of tormenting a Black subordinate for years with racist name-calling that... More
January 24, 2022
The court said it will take up lawsuits claiming that Harvard University, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina, a state school, discriminate against Asian... More
January 24, 2022
A coalition of media groups says restrictions on access to the federal civil rights trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's... More
January 18, 2022
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Court TV) — Thea Brooks has long used fashion as an outlet for self-expression, designing T-shirts for special occasions and doing her own More
January 6, 2022
Gov. John Bel Edwards scheduled the pardon ceremony for a spot near where Plessy was arrested in 1892 for breaking a Louisiana law requiring Black... More
January 5, 2022
The Montana Supreme Court has reversed a Miles City man's conviction for attempted deliberate homicide for threatening to stab a bar owner in the heart... More
January 4, 2022
A new federal court order says a Mississippi city must allow construction of a mosque, two months after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a... More
January 4, 2022
A firearms store and gun range in suburban Kansas City refused to let a Muslim woman use the range unless she removed her hijab, a... More
January 4, 2022
An Iowa man charged earlier for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was arraigned Tuesday on a new federal indictment... More
December 21, 2021
A Louisiana judge is taking an unpaid leave of absence after she repeatedly used a racial slur in a video recorded at her home and... More
December 16, 2021
By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman... More
December 16, 2021
Minneapolis ex-cop Derek Chauvin appears to be on the verge of pleading guilty to violating George Floyd 's civil rights according to notice sent by... More
December 13, 2021
Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till it is ending latest investigation into 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted tortured... More
December 6, 2021
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jurors in the trial of the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery must decide... More
November 18, 2021
Two California couples gave birth to each others' babies after a mix-up at a fertility clinic and spent months raising children that weren't theirs before... More
November 8, 2021
Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus... More
October 26, 2021
A local prosecutor has filed a motion to clear the names of four young African American men who were wrongly accused of raping a white... More
October 26, 2021
