The fundamental rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to all individuals by law, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other personal characteristics.
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... 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;... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... More
June 29, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn as the Supreme Court's 116th justice just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires. More
June 29, 2022
The Supreme Court, in a ruling Friday, ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years. More
June 24, 2022
Transgender people born in North Carolina may now correct the sex designation on their birth certificate without undergoing surgery after a consent judgment issued by... More
June 23, 2022
Nicholas John Roske, who was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in Maryland, pleaded not guilty to trying to kill Kavanaugh. More
June 22, 2022
The Supreme Court said Wednesday that an armed man who made threats against Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice's house in Maryland. More
June 8, 2022
U.S. Army Col. Gail Curley, Marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court, will oversee an investigation into the leak of a draft opinion and apparent votes... More
May 24, 2022
Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond... More
May 20, 2022
Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative political activist, was more involved than previously known in efforts to overturn... More
May 20, 2022
Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation for long periods of time amid a critical shortage of public defense attorneys filed a... More
May 16, 2022
A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according... More
May 2, 2022
Redfin will change its minimum housing price policy, alter other practices, and pay $4 million to settle the suit brought against it by the National... More
April 29, 2022
A state investigation launched after George Floyd’s killing in the custody of four Minneapolis police officers has determined that the department engages in a pattern... More
April 27, 2022
Stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, relatives and activists want authorities to launch a kidnapping prosecution against... More
April 22, 2022
The NFL is telling a judge there are multiple reasons why a lawsuit brought against it by three Black coaches who allege racist hiring practices... More
April 21, 2022
The Florida Senate passed a bill to repeal a law allowing Walt Disney World to operate a private government over its properties in the state,... More
April 20, 2022
Former star of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" NeNe Leakes sued the companies behind the show on Wednesday, alleging that they fostered and tolerated a... More
April 20, 2022
A federal lawsuit challenging Idaho's ban on transgender athletes in women's sports will likely move forward after both sides agreed that the woman who sued... More
April 14, 2022
Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while... More
April 13, 2022
