Kristen Clarke became the first Black woman and first woman overall to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division with her Senate confirmation that followed a drawn-out process that stalled for months.

With the outcome of the Derek Chauvin trial, many Black families who stand in the grief of losing a lost loved one at the hands of police brutality, or in Arbery's case, white vigilante terror, see some semblance of justice in their future.

Louisville Police Cheif Erika Shields took an unexpected tack in response to the news that the U.S. Department of Justice was launching an investigation into her department.

The criminal trial of three white police officers charged with beating a handcuffed undercover Black detective during the 2017 protests in St. Louis is testing the so-called Blue Wall of Silence as officers have begun turning on one another.

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Nominated to be the first Black woman to lead the Department of Justice’s civil rights division, Kristen Clarke is caught in the crosshairs of conservative theatrics.

Prosecutors recently impaneled a grand jury and interviewed fresh witnesses in the ongoing investigation into Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer who kneeled on Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes.

The current DOJ is still trying to make Omarosa Manigault Newman pay tens of thousands of dollars that Trump's administration first demanded she fork over on a technicality for incomplete paperwork.

The DOJ announced there lacked sufficient evidence to "support federal criminal charges against Cleveland Division of Police (CDP) Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback."

The Justice Department has assigned a federal hate crimes lawyer to help prosecute a man charged with murdering a transgender student in Iowa.

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The DOJ refuses to charge the six officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, citing "insufficient evidence."

After forcing all Obama administration federal prosecutors to resign, President Trump and U.S. Attorney General Sessions have not replaced any of the workers.

Judge James K. Bredar ruled Friday for a consent decree allowing the overhauling of the Baltimore Police Department after a scathing 2016 Department of Justice report revealed officers operated with racial bias and used excessive force disproportionately on African Americans.