Implicit bias against Latinos, who now make up the largest subset of federal criminal defendants, poses an increasing threat to the integrity of the justice…
African Americans in Virginia’s Albemarle County, including the city of Charlottesville, are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system and face disparity on almost every…
The origins of modern mass incarceration, and its targeting of black offenders, are often traced back to the 1980s and the emergence of the war…
How did being black become equivalent to being inferior in the United States? How did that inferiority come to excuse and even justify African-American enslavement…
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…