Civil Rights & Social Justice

A Minnesota judge handed down an extra lenient prison sentence of just 24 months to former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter for killing Daunte Wright after purportedly confusing a Taser for a gun in suburban Minneapolis last year.

Here's an open letter to Tafoya about CRT, the power of whiteness, and why she doesn't know WTF she's talking about.

Daunte Wright's family, including his parents, siblings and mother of his son, had the opportunity to confront Kim Potter before the former Minnesota police officer convicted of manslaughter was sentenced for killing the 20-year-old motorist.

An East Cleveland police were caught on camera kicking a black man in the back while he was complying with the officer's demands.

During the emotional service, the Reverend Al Sharpton vowed to help the Locke family on their mission for justice and to successfully ban the use of no-knock warrant searches from police protocol.

Experts on the topic of reparations for slavery are cautiously more optimistic than ever about the prospects of African Americans finally being given a semblance of reparative justice as the larger movement gains momentum. Here's where things stand today.

The family of Nia Whims of Miramar, Fla., is suing Meta, the company that owns Instagram, Renaissance Charter School at Pines, and the Pembroke Pines Police Department after she was arrested and imprisoned for 11 days over an Instagram threat she never made.

On February 1, the first day of Black History Month, West Virginia Delegate Danielle Walker (D-Monongalia), the only Black woman lawmaker in the state, received an email that included an image of a KKK member from now-former Berkeley County West Virginians For Life President Richard Demoske.

The Pensacola Police Department has launched a full-scale investigation after two Black parents accused SWAT officers of physically harming their 1-year-old son during a botched raid on a home while executing a search warrant.

Civil rights leaders were reacting with disgust and anger to what they described as a racist police response to a mall fight between two teenagers at Bridgewater Commons Mall in New Jersey. The fight was recorded on video and went viral on social media.

A Sprunica Elementary School councilor aptly named Benjamin White authored the letter to parents allowing them to opt-out of letting their children be taught about Black History Month.

The Faculty Council at the University of Texas approved a nonbinding resolution Monday defending the academic freedom of faculty members to teach about race, gender justice, and critical race theory, and Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick is unhappy about it.