About one in every 1,000 African-American men in the U.S. can expect to be killed by police, according to a study published in the Proceedings…
Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a white Missouri police officer five years ago Friday stands as a “seismic moment” in race relations, says…
All he wanted was a slushie. But after making a “wide turn” on his way to do so, black teenager Tae-Ahn Lea was pulled over,…
Bias training often isn’t enough to eliminate police and prosecutor misconduct that can put innocent people in jail, says a Stanford University psychology professor. More…
The Supreme Court reversed the most recent conviction of Curtis Flowers, a black Mississippi man who has been tried an extraordinary six times for a…
The criminal justice system should have no role in determining housing policy, argues a paper from the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. The paper,…
When Sonny Lara was 12 years old, growing up in San Jose, Ca., he decided to make a name for himself. He started selling drugs…
As marijuana legalization spreads across the country, minority entrepreneurs have so far failed to make inroads in a once-clandestine business that made them targets of…
Most African-American professionals in the 21st century lack the ability to grasp how miserable it was living in a Separate-But-Equal world where the color of…
LaGrange, Ga., shuts off water to homes when residents fail to pay unrelated court fines or fees. In Miami Beach, Fl., an unpaid Airbnb fee…