In July, 2018, the venerable British medical journal Lancet reported on research that explored the “spillover effect” of police shootings of unarmed African-American men on…
A civil rights group is urging the Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court ruling that said a Black Lives Matter organizer has no First Amendment…
A Maryland jury will soon be asked to consider whether the 2017 murder of a U.S. Army lieutenant at the University of Maryland’s College Park…
The numbers are still troubling. Although America’s world-beating incarceration rates have begun to decline, soaring female jail populations and stark racial disparities in state prisons…
A racial double standard has been hard-wired into the nation’s criminal justice system since the heyday of the crack epidemic in the late 1980s and…
Although African Americans are disproportionately the largest group of individuals in the U.S. justice system, the racial disparity between blacks and whites has significantly narrowed…
It took five years of effort in federal court, but my organization, The Fortune Society just won a precedent-setting settlement of a landmark civil rights…
More than two decades ago, a group including the white sheriff of Limestone County, Ala., rustled and slaughtered more than 60 head of cattle owned…
At least 31 times in 10 years, Sheriff’s Office deputies in South Carolina’s Greenville County fired their weapons at someone. A person died in 19…
The Pennsylvania State Police, the nation’s third-largest statewide law enforcement agency, quietly stopped collecting data on the race of drivers stopped by its troopers in…