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

Right now, a jury is deciding if two former New Milford police detectives violated Ricky Birch’s rights to a fair trial.

Former DOE officials reveal to TheGrio how education staff layoffs are quietly dismantling protections for marginalized students.

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 ...

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 ...

The jury’s verdict on Friday capped a trial that saw the officer’s own colleagues – including a former close friend – testify ...

That is what Jefferson County, Alabama District Attorney Danny Carr has tried to do in the case of Toforest Johnson, a man ...

The act prohibits the sale of all federally owned landmarks listed on the national register of historic places.