Civil Rights & Social Justice

Witnesses to the execution of Oklahoma death row inmate John Grant described a cruel and inhumane lethal injection process that left him convulsing and vomiting for "nearly 15 minutes" before dying, contradicting reports it was "without complication."

The DOJ's $88 million settlement especially rebukes white supremacists since that number is also a hate symbol, underscoring the significance of the amount of money awarded to Charleston Church massacre survivors and victims' families, all of whom are Black.

Johnny Lorenzo Bolton was fatally shot in an apartment in Smyrna, Ga., by a deputy who was part of a team that was serving a drug warrant on December 17, 2020. A grand jury determined the shooting to be unjustified and has recommended the officer to be charged.

On Monday, Glenn Youngkin, the GOP's great white hope in Virginia's gubernatorial race, released a campaign ad featuring a woman who, in 2012 and 2013, embarked on a mission to get iconic, Nobel Prize-winning Black author Toni Morrison's novel Beloved removed from her son's school.

A white man from Michigan won a $10 million discrimination lawsuit after a federal jury in Charlotte agreed with his claims that his former employer fired him because he was a white male.

The citizen's arrest law that Ahmaud Arbery's accused killers used in an attempt to justify their deadly violence could play an outsized role in their murder trial.

In Bradenton, Florida, U.S. Marshals arrived with guns drawn at the home of Kada Staples and her three-month-old during a raid conducted by the cops who were reportedly searching for a murder suspect—at the wrong apartment.

A Missouri black man filed a lawsuit against Maryland Heights Police accusing officers of unlawful seizure, excessive force, and unlawful search after a traffic stop almost turned into tragedy.

A recent video posted to Tik Tok shows a Black man being pinned to his car by a bunch of police officers while the woman recording the video is heard aggressively explaining to the cops that they have the wrong guy and it was actually a couple of white men who accosted the Black man they decided to go after.

Terry Duane Turner is free on bail after killing unarmed Adil Dghoughi, lying to police about the circumstances and then being allowed to turn himself in weeks later in the shooting of an immigrant from Morocco who only pulled into Turner's driveway to turn his car around in Martinville, Texas.

A rally for NBA player Kyrie Irving that also served as a protest against the vaccine mandate preventing him from playing this season drew comparisons to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots after turning violent in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon.

Over seven years after his killing, police and city officials may finally be held accountable for Garner's death. Advocates, including Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, have been undeterred in demand for accountability in the years since Garner was taken away from his family and community.