Civil Rights Movements & the Law

"Calling it a "moral mandate" Washington Gov. Jay Inslee a Democrat signed a dozen bills into law on Tuesday that backers hope will improve policing in the state reduce the use of deadly force and ensure that when deadly encounters do occur the investigations are thorough and independent."

"The Monell Rule is the most important racial justice issue you've never heard of."

" Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who was previously convicted of murdering George Floyd pleaded not guilty on Thursday to violating a Black teen's civil rights in 2017. "

"A group of New York City students filed a sweeping lawsuit on Tuesday that accuses the United States’ largest public school system of perpetuating racism via a flawed admissions process for selective programs that favors white students."

"Standard legal ethics courses long considered dry and theoretical by many students have experienced a renaissance over the past two years due to the pandemic and an increased focus on social justice."

A proposal to establish a task force to study and prepare recommendations for how to give reparations to African Americans passed the California Assembly on Thursday.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told The Root during an Instagram live interview on Juneteenth that he agrees with the spirit of the “defund the police” movement but is not for an all-out abolishment of law enforcement. He also delved into what exactly defunding the police looks like from his perspective and how…

The long-hidden racist attack on "Black Wall Street" and its residents is finally in the open — and raising questions about all that Americans don’t know and have tried to hide.

Black historians and community members in Maryland pooled resources to reclaim thousands of pages documenting the auction and sale of enslaved Black

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Often portrayed as an abolitionist, Hamilton may have enslaved people in his own household

Sara Lomax-Reese owns WURD, one of a handful of black-owned and operated radio stations in the US.

Longstanding inequalities have led to the current wave of protests.

Research has extensively documented the differences between the Black and white experience in the US, from wealth and education to incarceration.

In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal government began a program explicitly designed to increase — and segregate — America's housing stock. Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation."

ATLANTA (AP) — A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community , which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.

The family of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger who was chased by three white men in pickup trucks and gunned down in south Georgia in 2020, says that the men's federal hate crimes trial will do what the state court did not - reckon with race.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery as he ran on a residential street remained free for more than two months, with police and prosecutors appearing to accept their story that the young Black man was a fleeing criminal who turned and attacked before being fatally shot.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s, according to an FBI report released Monday...

These government maps documented racist lending practices that gave rise to today’s segregated neighborhoods.

The filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña discusses the Atlanta shootings, the murder of Vincent Chin, and the complexities of Asian identity in the United States.

In the age of COVID-19, an epidemic of anti-Asian bias and violence is spreading across America. The hard truth is that this isn’t new—in fact, for any student of history, it’s very familiar.

Aaron Coleman's early art took the form of graffiti art on trains. He is now a printmaker whose work has been displayed in collections around the world.

The FBI has long discredited civil rights leaders. It should put its authorities to better use by holding officers accountable, writes former agent Mike German

Systemic racism looks at the way racism operates over all of society, not just in one-on-one interactions.

The documents are slightly different drafts of the same annual threat assessment, which is not yet published.

Fear gripped the Asian American and Pacific Islander community after the Georgia shooting.

Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries.

News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.