Civil Rights & Social Justice

Iowa's three public universities are closing all of their DEI offices to comply with a new state law and to help "young white men."

In a case similar to that of George Floyd, Frank Tyson died with a knee on his neck after telling Canton police, "I can't breathe."

A Black woman shown on video being violently assaulted after she called 911 to report her white neighbor is demanding justice via a federal lawsuit.

Black Lives Matter protests in cities with Black women police chiefs had much less violence than cities with police chiefs of other races and gender, research has found.

Black death row inmates are disproportionately vulnerable to being victimized by botched executions, a new report has found.

Air Force Col. Benjamin Jonsson, who wrote an op-ed on racism in the military, got his nomination for a promotion extended after it was blocked by an anti-DEI Republican.

Two years ago, 37-year-old Tremar Harris was a pre-trial detainee in solitary confinement at the Appling County jail in Brunswick, Georgia.

“It never ends,” began Nsombi Lambright-Haynes during an exclusive discussion with NewsOne about Mississippi’s Goon Squad members, Brett McAlpin, who filed a notice of appeal this week despite having plead guilty to torturing two Black men, his attorney Aafram Sellers reported. 

Rodreisha L. Russaw first heard about Jim Kennedy Jr.'s missing organs from a colleague of hers at the coalition, Alabamians for Fair Justice last year. Kennedy had been killed while doing time in an Alabama prison. Officials notified the family of his death some four days after his death. That was bad. But not as bad as a call one of Kennedy's family members received from the funeral home. They wanted to know if the family was aware that all of their loved one's organs were missing. 

Why is it that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis always seems so dedicated to further protecting the most protected classes in America?

Rep. Maxwell Frost called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after she denounced white supremacists in Ukraine because she dined with Nick Fuentes.

Here's a list of organizations dedicated to improving the experience of Black motherhood and Black maternal health.