Civil Rights & Social Justice

The family of Jason Walker, an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed by off-duty police officer Jeffrey Hash, has retained civil rights attorney Ben Crump following the questionable shooting in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

The recent deadly fires in the Bronx and Philadelphia have placed a spotlight on racial and economic disparities in urban housing and mounting fire-prone risks caused by them.

William Cunningham, a racist white man in Washington state, is facing a felony hate crime charge after a video shows he used racial slurs and threatened to kill a Black student at Monroe High School who was in a physical altercation with Cunningham's allegedly racist daughter and her boyfriend.

The police narrative for the recent killing of Jason Walker by an off-duty Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputy in Fayetteville, North Carolina, criminalizes the victim in death in what his family says is an unlikely scenario.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

One of the most fascinating aspects of Sidney Poitier’s career was his political and racial symbolism and how, in many ways, his screen life intertwined with that of the civil rights movement – and Martin Luther King himself.

Considering the mounting opposition to critical race theory, it's important to put the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in its proper historical perspective and document the decidedly racist elements that fueled the riots and helped define that moment's legacy.

Protesters in New Jersey were demanding justice after an eyewitness said a plainclothes police officer killed 25-year-old Thelonious "RaRa" McKnight while he was holding his hands up.

Social media was replete with conspiracy theories after it was reported that it took police in Houston more than four hours to respond to a weekend shooting that left George Floyd's preschool-aged niece critically injured.

Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet is now former Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet since that she has finally resigned following the fallout from an N-word-laced rant caught on a home video that went viral.

Residents in one predominately white New York City neighborhood have complained that the local COVID-19 testing and treatment plan prioritizes people along "racial and ethnic" lines, according to a city council member.

There is growing outrage in Austin, Minnesota after cops killed Kokou Christopher Fiafonou, an African immigrant, who was possibly suffering a mental health crisis when he was shot. His loved ones say he was "innocent."

A site called The School of the West, run by a former Arizona teacher who goes by Brant Danger, recently launched an anti-critical race theory online “educational resource for homeschooling parents” called "White Wellbeing."