Civil Rights & Social Justice

A Black family based in Louisville, Kentucky, recently launched a GoFundMe in an effort to escape their collective trauma as the result of a violent no-knock raid.

Mike Elliott, mayor of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, the Minneapolis suburb where Daunte Wright was killed by a police officer, called for cops to stop using pepper spray and other controversial non-violent methods.

Several members of Daunte Wright's family spoke out on Tuesday alongside other families who gained national prominence after losing a loved one to state sanctioned violence.

In the suit, Nigel Shelby's family claims their son's civil rights were violated prior to his death in 2019.

Facial recognition and biased data practices exist across multiple sectors. Algorithms and other technology can take on the flawed assumptions and biases inherent in society.

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Stacey Abrams has been appointed to serve as co-chair of the Black Voices for Black Justice Fund.

Dr. Martin Tobin, a pulmonary specialist, used graphics and detailed descriptions to back up his medical assessment that Chauvin's use of force resulted in low oxygen levels that damaged Floyd's brain, causing his heart to stop.

The review comes as progressive lawmakers and various constituent groups call for the president to forgive up to $50,000 of student loan debt.

Not burdened by respectability politics and rules of decorum, lawmakers like Park Cannon, Angie Nixon, Travaris McCurdy, and Michele K. Rayner-Goolsby center equity injustice and are fighting to protect democracy.

Investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect who brutally attacked a 65-year-old Asian American woman who was on her way to church.

Black and Latino youth populations in detention centers grew while white non-Latino youth decreased during the pandemic, a new survey has found.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

The bloodletting of white nationalism and white supremacy is no brand new agony for us. Now, we mourn more loss and pray for the families of these full, beautiful, lives stolen during a deadly shooting spree at Asian spas in and near Atlanta.