
The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, making her the first Black woman and former public defender to serve on the...
Minnesota professor Pamela Fergus raised $200,000 in honor of Philando Castile to pay student lunch debts but misappropriated the funds.

At only 35 years old, Johnson is also the city’s first millennial mayor, bringing in a new generation to political power to City Hall.

Amir Locke was fatally shot by Minneapolis police in February as officers were executing a "no-knock" search warrant on the apartment he was in.
A Texas Court of Appeals upheld former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger’s murder 2019 conviction and sentence for killing Botham Jean in his own apartment in...

Tyre Sampson's family says the teen was turned away from two other rides that night due to his weight.

A panel of three superior court judges in Wake County, NC ruled in a 2-1 decision that people with criminal records can vote once they have...
President Biden has signed the Emmett Till anti-lynching bill, more than a century after it was proposed.

The House has passed the Crown Act, which would ban discrimination on Black hairstyles.
An appellate court judge has agreed with Jussie Smollett's lawyers and granted the actor's release while he appeals his sentence.