The fundamental rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to all individuals by law, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other personal characteristics.
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
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law that makes it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in... More
April 12, 2022
A Texas district attorney said Sunday that he will ask a judge to dismiss a murder charge against a woman over a self-induced abortion. More
April 11, 2022
A second suspect was arrested Tuesday in connection to the mass shooting in Sacramento, and police say he is the brother of the first suspect. More
April 5, 2022
A New York man who spent nearly 40 years trying to clear his name after a jury tainted by antisemitism wrongfully convicted him of arson... More
April 5, 2022
Sacramento police arrested Dandrae Martin, a man connected to the shooting that killed six people and wounded a dozen others as multiple shooters fired more... More
April 4, 2022
Police say officers were responding to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a home in Southeast Washington when they located the five fetuses inside. More
April 1, 2022
President Joe Biden signs The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law -- lynching is now a federal hate crime. More
March 29, 2022
Three Muslim Americans filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that U.S. border officers questioned them about their religious beliefs in violation of their constitutional rights when... More
March 24, 2022
Former Google employee sued tech giant for racial discrimination saying it engages in "pattern and practice" of unfair treatment for Black workers. More
March 21, 2022
Relatives of Emmett Till joined with supporters Friday in asking authorities to reverse their decision to close an investigation of his 1955 lynching and instead... More
March 11, 2022
Congress gave final approval to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S., sending the bill to... More
March 7, 2022
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a 15-week abortion ban into law. More
March 4, 2022
President Joe Biden on Friday will reportedly nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. More
February 25, 2022
Florida Republicans on Wednesday rejected a move to create exemptions for rape, incest and human trafficking in their proposal to ban abortions after 15 weeks,... More
February 2, 2022
Fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three teams on Tuesday over alleged racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers, saying... More
February 1, 2022
Two police detectives in Connecticut's largest city have been suspended amid investigations into allegations of insensitivity in their handling of separate cases in which Black... More
January 31, 2022
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An appellate court is preparing to hear arguments over a lawsuit challenging South Carolina's More
January 26, 2022
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring Breyer, 83, has been a pragmatic force on a court that has grown increasingly conservative in recent years,... More
January 26, 2022
Wyoming's first Black sheriff last year fired a high-ranking white deputy who is accused of tormenting a Black subordinate for years with racist name-calling that... More
January 24, 2022
The court said it will take up lawsuits claiming that Harvard University, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina, a state school, discriminate against Asian... More
January 24, 2022
A coalition of media groups says restrictions on access to the federal civil rights trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's... More
January 18, 2022
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Court TV) — Thea Brooks has long used fashion as an outlet for self-expression, designing T-shirts for special occasions and doing her own More
January 6, 2022
Gov. John Bel Edwards scheduled the pardon ceremony for a spot near where Plessy was arrested in 1892 for breaking a Louisiana law requiring Black... More
January 5, 2022
The Montana Supreme Court has reversed a Miles City man's conviction for attempted deliberate homicide for threatening to stab a bar owner in the heart... More
January 4, 2022
