Civil Rights & Social Justice
The son of a suspected white supremacist Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet in Louisiana who starred in a home video showing the family repeatedly using the N-word has been revealed to be anti-mask amid reports his disgraced mother has stepped away from the bench -- but not resigned.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer, pleaded guilty this Wednesday to federal charges that he violated George Floyd’s civil rights. Suprisingly, Chauvin also admitted guilt to a separate instance in case where he used similar tactic on a 14 year old in September 2017. He also in that case, initially pleaded not guilty. Chauvin, […]
Louisiana state officials refuse to release Sneed despite two separate court decisions ordering his release.
A white man was sentenced to mere probation recently after planting bombs near a busy plaza in downtown Pittsburgh following a Black Lives Matter protest.
Meet Miriam Zinter: The Black woman who could pass for White with her fair skin, blonde, wavy hair and blue eyes. Zinter is usually faced with uncomfortable comments from White people who don't realize she's actually Black. Read more on her story inside.
Nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump is filing a lawsuit against Louisiana's agency overseeing child welfare over years-old allegations that Black children were sexually abused by "wealthy white men" while in the state's custody.
Monifa Bandele of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement shared that aging prisoners like Shakur are having their requests for compassionate release blocked despite having multiple health issues in the middle of an ongoing public health crisis
All a Black man wanted to do was cash his check after work at a U.S. Bank branch in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. But, the bank teller and manager thought he was a thief trying to pass off a fake check and the cops thought he was too angry to be innocent—but no worries, certainly the […]
While Jussie Smollett's claim of being the victim of a racist hate crime is not exactly apples-to-apples with the infamous Tawana Brawley case from more than 30 years earlier, the two instances share a number of notable -- and unfortunate -- similarities.
The Charlottesville City Council has decided on the fate of a recently demounted statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, choosing to melt it down and have a local African-American history museum create something more reflective of the city's diversity with its remains.