Civil Rights & Social Justice

Discover the most up-to-date news, commentary, and archives on civil rights, human rights, and social justice issues that impact the Black community.

A series of "Karen" videos showing women weaponizing their whiteness against Black people underscore why racial profiling stories still matter so much.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

Jackie Johnson was indicted more than two years ago for allegedly protecting Arbery's killers.

Philadelphia pastor Phillip Fisher Jr., a Black man who works with the state's chapter of Moms for Liberty, was convicted of sexually abusing a young teenage boy.

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Livestream Dexter Wade's funeral, the Black man secretly killed and buried by officials in Hinds County, Mississippi. Here's how to watch online.

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Funeral plans have been announced for Dexter Wade, a Black man killed by Mississippi police and secretly buried without notifying his family.

Dexter Wade's preliminary autopsy shows evidence that his body was severely mishandled before being secretly buried, a pathologist found.

A Mississippi county letter confirms Dexter Wade's family was lied to about when the 37-year-old Black man's body would be exhumed after a police officer killed him and he was secretly buried.

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The body of Dexter Wade, a Black man killed by Mississippi police and buried without his family being notified, was secretly dug up by county officials more than eight months after he was first reported missing.

Dameion Pickett was charged with third-degree assault after he was attacked by Zachary Shipman, one of the defendants in the infamous "Montgomery Riverboat Brawl" viral incident.

Five Black women sued police chiefs, detectives and the city government.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

It's the latest federal probe of a city and its police department accused of civil rights violations.

Letitia James is poised to get the last laugh as Donald Trump continues to taunt the "racist" AG and "corrupt" judge at his civil fraud trial in New York City.