Civil Rights & Social Justice

Several past instances of racist banking practices against Black and brown customers and employees alike cost Bank of America hundreds of millions of dollars in fines well before the Ryan Coogler fiasco.

A spokesperson for Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black said in a statement that “Herschel Walker isn’t smart enough to debate anybody," After Walker declared that he wouldn't be "playing games" by debating Republicans and will only debate Raphael Warnock.

"This is the gold standard of how everyone should be treated," UndocuBlack's National Director of Policy and Advocacy Haddy Gassama wrote in an op-ed. "So, we're putting into question why Black migrants, in particular, are not allotted the same level of empathy and humanity." 

Michael Hosinski was granted early retirement despite video footage showing him chasing after a student, grabbing the student by the backpack, hitting him in the face and slamming him into a wall at Jimtown High School in Elkhart, Indiana.

"Emmett Till," the opera, was written by Clare Coss, a white woman who based it off her play that stars a fictional white woman who has nothing to do with the true story. What could possibly go wrong?

Now-former Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Larry Scirotto was fired after department employees complained he committed equal opportunity violations after saying a wall of police chief photos was "'too white’ and ‘I’m gonna change that.’"

Jury selection for the trial will officially begin on April 18.

Harris reaffirmed the administration's commitment to full securing the right to vote and protecting access to democracy.

On April 12, last year, 27-year-old Black man Miles Jackson was shot and killed by police officers in a Columbus, Ohio, emergency room after a gun he allegedly had tucked in his pants went off. The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide saying he was shot 20 times in his head, chest, and abdomen.

Mississippi's Republican-controlled House voted 75-43 to pass Senate Bill 2113, an anti-CRT that bans schools and colleges from teaching that any “sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior,” which no school actually teaches.  

The Anti-Racism Act of 2022 passed the West Virginia Senate by a 21-12 vote on Wednesday and has been sent to the House. The bill prevents the teaching that any race, ethnicity, or biological sex is superior to another in public K-12 schools and colleges—which don't teach any of that. 

Fox News host Tucker Carlson demanded to see the LSAT scores of Joe Biden's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to prove that she's "one of our nation's top legal minds."