While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

Northern Kentucky University's Chase College of Law is hosting a symposium this week on the history and lasting impact of the ...

The parents of 17-year-old Alvin Cole filed the federal lawsuit against Joseph Mensah in connection to the Feb. 2, 2020, shooting. The suit claims then-officer Mensah, the former police chief and the ...

Freshly divulged information handed over to defense attorneys less than 48 hours in advance delayed Ronn Jermaine Bell's ...

Bell has been locked up and awaiting trial since his arrest shortly after the 2019 murder of local civil rights activist ...

Devon Wenger has long maintained the two criminal cases against him are the result of retaliatory action by the ...

The lawsuit was filed under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, which allows lawsuits to be filed in the U.S. against ...

A former Antioch police officer, Morteza Amiri, was found guilty of civil rights deprivation and record falsification from a ...

March 16, 2025 – OAKLAND, CA – A federal jury on Friday convicted former Antioch police officer Morteza Amiri of one count of ...

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was a ...