Supreme Court tosses out Curtis Flowers’s conviction in sixth trial of 1996 murders, citing racial bias. Curtis Giovanni Flowers, left, listens to testimony in his…
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Officers threatened to shoot the black parents over allegations their four-year-old child shoplifted a doll. Mayor Gallego wrote on Twitter that the incident made her…
The Hands Up Act could do something about it. Since the police killings of Botham Jean in Dallas and Emantic “E.J.” Bradford in Birmingham, Alabama,…
Geoff Smith: Low-income areas are losing affordable housing due to decades of economic disinvestment and discrimination. Newly sworn-in Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot ran on…
Police in Texas investigating whether the murders of two black transgender women are connected. At least five black transgender women have been killed in the…
Muhlaysia Booker found dead in Texas on Saturday, about a month after she was assaulted in an attack caught on video. Muhlaysia Booker is the…
Eric Garner, a black man, died nearly five years ago after police placed him a fatal chokehold. Protesters rally and speak out on the one…
Bland, a black woman, was found hanging in her jail cell three days after her 2015 arrest for a minor traffic violation. A demonstrator holds…
The social media company also bans Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer. This combination of file photo shows Louis Farrakhan and…
Authorities drop charges, but say they still believe Smollett lied about being a victim of a racist and anti-gay attack. Cast member Jussie Smollett attends…
In one of the United States’s deadliest cities, a group is attempting to curb gun crime by working with community. Thanks to a group that’s…
The recent college cheating scandal surprises no one. The super rich have long relied on “legacy admissions” to get them into their elite college of…
Lesson plans tend to gloss over the U.S.’s deeply entrenched institutional racism. Here’s what should be added. When it comes to how deeply embedded racism…
In 2014, US law enforcement officers began using secret messaging app Silent Phone which destroys text messages. A police officer raises his weapon at a…
Research has shown that certain movies have caused social justice change, or simply inspired good things to happen. Some therapists prescribe movies as a form…
Officials worried about the loss of trust after the longest shutdown in U.S. history put 1.1 million low-income households at risk of eviction. The 35-day…
A clear alternative to the prevailing nihilism followed the president’s State of the Union address. What did we expect from the 2019 Trump State of…
My nonprofit converts buses into fully functioning, attractive 240-square-foot tiny houses on wheels for homeless children and their parents. The rains came down sideways. We…
And it’s not just about rich and poor. The racial wealth gap is damaging to the economy as a whole. The story of the growing…
Dr. King was widely disliked for his message of liberation for oppressed people in this country—Black people, Brown people, Native people, all poor people. At…