Out of President Joe Biden’s 11 nominees to be federal judges, nine are women, five are Black and four are Black women.
Black and Latino youth populations in detention centers grew while white non-Latino youth decreased during the pandemic, a new survey has found.
Like Georgia's new voter suppression law, Florida's proposed H.B. 7041 prohibits providing voters food and drinks, imposes stricter voter ID requirements and more.
Beating Luther Hall, a Black detective, isn’t egregious enough to find white officers guilty of police brutality, according to one jury in St. Louis.
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.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian praised Georgia's new voter suppression laws with a statement that sounded like it could have been written in coordination with Gov. Brian Kemp’s team.
The Minnesota Supreme Court's unanimous decision to overturn a conviction of a man who raped an unconscious woman has exposed a loophole in state law.
Announcing a “new progressive direction” on handling arrests and prosecutions, Mosby said the city would no longer spend limited resources on “low-level crimes” including drug possession and prostitution.
Cliff Albright, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, said the most troubling parts of SB 202 are the provisions diluting Georgia's secretary of state’s power and allowing local county boards to take over an election.
Legislation that could improve access to the ballot and strengthen democracy depends on whether the Senate can remove the filibuster, which has a history rooted in racism.
Janey became the first woman and first Black person to lead the nearly 400-year-old city on Monday.
Committing the first $10 million in revenue from the city’s cannabis tax, Evanston, Illinois, is the first city in the U.S. to enact some form of general reparations.