Civil Rights & Social Justice
The suit names the city of Fort Worth, as well as Mayor Betsy Price, former police chief Ed Krauss, and Aaron Dean, the officer who took her life, as complicit figures in Atatiana's death.
A blend of brutality, corruption and malfeasance has been the prevailing culture in recent years within the Lousiana State Police, whose troopers are accused of killing motorist Ronald Greene.
Here are five facts about the fight for abortion rights and what’s at stake in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a controversial Mississippi case that could undo Roe v. Wade.
Pasquotank County District Attorney R. Andrew Womble has determined that the police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, was "justified."
Mikayla's supporters plan to march to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan's office on May 21 to call for her resignation and to pressure law enforcement to turn the case over to the FBI.
Ahead of an event marking the 100 years since the Tulsa race massacre, the group tasked with planning the centennial removed Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt from its committee.
Disagreements over qualified immunity to hold police legally accountable have stalled legislation on police reform as President Joe Biden's deadline of George Floyd's anniversary rapidly approaches.
Families of victims from the 1985 police bombing of Black liberation group MOVE's headquarters in Philadelphia learned remains previously thought destroyed were actually still intact.
The family of Andre Hill, an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot within seconds of being seen by a white police officer, will receive $10 million as part of the largest civil settlement in the history of Columbus, Ohio.
In a sign that the failed war on drugs is still going strong, Russell Allen, a Black man serving life in prison stemming from a marijuana conviction in Mississippi, had his sentence upheld.
Gregory McMichael, who is charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, asked his lawyer from a jail phone: “You’ve heard the saying that no good deed goes unpunished?”
Attorneys and supporters of Pamela Turner, a Black woman who was shot by a Texas officer during a fatal May 2019 encounter, are gathering on Thursday to call for the termination of the officer involved in her death.