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…
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…