Civil Rights

Axel Cox, Mississippi man who burned a cross in his front yard to intimidate Black neighbors, pleaded guilty to a hate crime in federal court. More

December 2, 2022

Jennifer Dorow, judge who presided over the case of Darrell Brooks -- Waukesha Christmas Parade crash trial -- is running for Wisconsin Supreme Court. More

November 30, 2022

Anderson Lee Aldrich, suspected of shooting and killing 5 and wounding 17 at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, is held on murder and hate crimes. More

November 21, 2022

Authorities say a 22-year-old gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people and leaving 25 injured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons More

November 21, 2022

Members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education. More

October 31, 2022

Federal judge says he'll likely order a mental evaluation for Nicholas John Roske, who's charged with trying to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. More

October 26, 2022

Justice Dept. sued owners of Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City, SD, alleging they committed racial discrimination by turning away Native Americans. More

October 19, 2022

Colorado baker who refused to make gay couple's wedding cake is challenging a ruling he violated the law by refusing to make a gender transition cake. More

October 6, 2022

Sirhan Sirhan's lawyer is filing what's known as a writ of habeas corpus asking a judge to rule that Gov. Gavin Newsom violated state law. More

September 28, 2022

Judge rules mentally ill man Robert Dear, charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood, can be forcibly medicated. More

September 19, 2022

A federal district court has ruled in favor of a Kentucky wedding photographer who challenged a Louisville ordinance banning businesses from discriminating against gay customers. More

September 1, 2022

Robert Dear, mentally ill man charged with killing three people and wounding eight others at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 could become competent to stand trial if he is forcibly given anti-psychotic medication, a prison psychologist said. More

August 30, 2022

A federal appeals court said Arkansas can't enforce its ban on transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care. More

August 25, 2022

The Utah Republican Party passed a resolution encouraging the banning of surgeries and hormone therapy for transitioning transgender minors. More

August 16, 2022

Donald Trump has hired prominent Atlanta criminal defense attorney Drew Findling, known for defending famous rappers, to represent him in matters related to the special grand jury investigating whether the former president illegally tried to interfere with the 2020 election in Georgia. More

August 11, 2022

A grand jury in Mississippi declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Emmett Till despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman. A Leflore County grand jury determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham on charges of kidnapping and manslaughter. More

August 9, 2022

The ongoing trial in Austin, which is where Alex Jones’ far-right Infowars website and its parent company are based, stems from a 2018 lawsuit brought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son was killed in the 2012 attack along with 19 other first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. More

August 2, 2022

The California man accused of plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had an expansive goal to change the makeup of the Supreme Court “for decades to come." More

July 28, 2022

A family is suing Sesame Street-themed amusement park Sesame Place for $25 million over claims of racial discrimination, alleging costumed characters ignored a 5-year-old Black girl. More

July 28, 2022

Trident Mortgage Co., a division of Berkshire Hathaway's HomeServices of America, deliberately avoided writing mortgages in minority-majority neighborhoods in West Philadelphia like Malcolm X Park; Camden, New Jersey; and in Wilmington, Delaware, the Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in their settlement with Trident. More

July 27, 2022

An Alabama man is lying in a Utah hospital bed on life support. The hospital says he is brain dead, while his family says he’s alive. More

July 25, 2022

A man pleaded not guilty in Ohio to charges of raping a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion. The 27-year-old defendant is charged with two felony counts of rape. He could face life without parole. Police say the man confessed to raping the girl on two separate occasions. More

July 25, 2022

A federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. More

July 21, 2022

The Senate launched a new push to protect same-sex marriage in federal law after a surprising number of Republicans helped pass landmark legislation in the House. More

July 20, 2022

The U.S. House prepared to vote Tuesday on legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages amid concerns that the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade abortion access could jeopardize other rights criticized by many conservative Americans. More

July 19, 2022

Attorney Kathleen DeLaney sent the “cease and desist” letter to Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita on behalf of obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard, who performed a medical abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. More

July 15, 2022

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 says she neither identified him to the killers nor wanted him murdered. In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press, Carolyn Bryant Donham says she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till, who lived in Chicago and was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he was abducted, killed and tossed in a river. More

July 14, 2022

Texas woman Brandy Bottone contests HOV lane violation by telling cop her unborn daughter counts as a person. More

July 11, 2022

The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for. Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement took effect at noon. More

June 30, 2022

A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till found the unserved warrant charging a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to arrest her. More

June 29, 2022