People are actually debating how long racially-motivated assault convicts should go to prison, for terrorizing a black child with a shotgun in Georgia.
The ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties filed a lawsuit against the San Diego Police Department, that has been abusing its authority and specifically targeting black children for unlawful DNA collection.
A conservative Republican lawmaker in Indianapolis proposed a bill that would allow African-Americans to continue their hair-braiding businesses without the cosmetology licensing regulation.
The Illinois-based Midwest Sperm Bank is facing a new lawsuit from Jennifer Cramblett who was provided with a sperm different from the one she had ordered. Her first lawsuit against the said sperm bank was dumped by a judge since she gave birth to a healthy baby but this time it is about fraud, breach of contract and negligence.
A city spokesman announced that a federal judge on Tuesday approved an agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and Ferguson, Missouri, to reform the city's police department after the 2014 shooting of an unarmed black teenager that sparked violent protests.
Ferguson City Council accepts the terms of the U.S. Government's Police Reform Plan. This is amidst tensions after Michael Brown, an African-American citizen, was killed by a Police Officer.
Former police officer Peter Liang convicted of killing Akai Gurley, an innocent black man. Though most Chinese-Americans are sympathizing with former police officer Peter Liang, not all of them do.
Federal Court Judge Cindy Jorgensen looks into reconsidering the complaint by an inmate at the Arizona State prison. The lawsuit stated that there is racial dirscrimination practices inside the state prison.
The white sheriff's deputy who is under federal investigation after he was caught on video flipping a black high school student out of her classroom chair in South Carolina was fired on Wednesday for violating department policy.
More than 200 protesters carrying bullhorns, drums and signs demonstrated against police in Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday night, with some placing the roasted head of a pig on a barricade in front of officers.
Relatives of nine African-Americans killed at a historic South Carolina church may get a second opportunity to address the white man accused in the murders on Friday when he is arraigned on federal hate crime charges, sources close to the case said.
At least five people were arrested on Saturday as white-supremacist and African-American groups clashed outside the South Carolina State House, where the Confederate battle flag was removed last week after a half-century, authorities said.
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed four counts in the wrongful-death lawsuit against Ferguson filed by the parents of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot dead last August by a white police officer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Hundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston for an emotional memorial service on Sunday just days after a gunman, identified by authorities as a 21-year-old white man, shot dead nine black church members.
A white man was arrested on Thursday on suspicions he killed nine people at a historic African-American church in South Carolina after sitting with them for an hour of Bible study in an attack U.S. officials are investigating as a hate crime.
Hundreds marched through the Dallas-area city of McKinney on Monday calling for the firing of a police officer seen in a video throwing a bikini-clad teenage girl to the ground and pointing his pistol at other youths at a pool party disturbance.
President Barack Obama addressed U.S. struggles with class and race in personal terms on Tuesday and renewed his call to close tax loopholes enjoyed by wealthy hedge fund managers as a way to reduce poverty among Americans.
A Baltimore police report on the death of a black man who suffered spinal injuries while in custody was handed over on Thursday to the city's chief prosecutor, who must decide whether to bring charges against six officers involved in the man's arrest.
Protesters marched against police violence in cities from New York to Denver on Wednesday, and a large demonstration in Baltimore ended peacefully two days after rioting over the death of a black man injured in police custody.
