Civil Rights & Social Justice

A generation of Black people fighting for liberation has been confined to the system; the Movement for Black Lives seeks to break the cycle of suppressing Black dissent in the fighting for Black liberation.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear paved the way for rights restoration for over 170,000 residents after his election in 2019, but advocates say thousands more remain stuck in an 'arbitrary' restoration process.

Bodycam video of NBA player Jaxson Hayes getting arrested in front of his home suggests LAPD officers may have employed a similar neck restraint that was used during the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year.

22-year-old Tory Brown was gunned down by officers who said he had a warrant out of Clayton County for violation of probation, and that he refused to comply with police demands to exit the apartment

A judge sentenced Miami native Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, a leader of the far-right group Proud Boys, to five months in prison for torching a Black Lives Matter banner.

The decision ends a racist practice that dates back to the end of the Civil War.

James Brown, 41, who pleaded guilty to criminal interference with federally protected housing rights based upon the victims' race, was not happy with a Black family organizing a civil rights protest in Virginia. So he burned a cross on their lawn.

It's been one year since Jacob Blake was shot seven times and paralyzed from the waist down by a Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Residents of Centreville, Ill., have been locked in a decades-long battle to get the local government to correct issues with raw sewage discharges flooding yards and basements.

According to the Department of Justice, the woman used her SUV as her weapon of choice in two separate incidents where she tried to run over a Black boy and another girl, claiming they "didn't belong."

Between old friends and Black lives, old friends will win every time.

Torrance police officers were charged for allegedly spray-painting a swastika inside an impounded car. Other cops got suspended for racist messages they're accused of sending each other. Now, hundreds of cases they were involved in are under review.