Civil Rights & Social Justice
The son of the oldest victim that passed away, 86-year-old Ruth Elizabeth Whitfield, joins Civil Rights and Personal Injury Attorney Ben Crump to discuss the tragic events, the climate of the city, and the legacy of his mother.
The National Park Service is awarding $16.2 million in grants to preserve historic landmarks connected to the civil rights movement.
Desiree Bullock, the mother of Dyree Williams, claims that the East Bernard Independent School District has denied her son enrollment in school because of his hairstyle. “It’s not right. My child should be able to keep his locks in his hair,” she said to a local news network covering the story.
Coretta Scott King’s birthday is a chance to revisit her legacy as a steward of peace and justice.
Michelle Obama's brother Craig Robinson is currently pursing a lawsuit after his pre-teen boys were expelled from the University School of Milwaukee in response to a complaint he and his wife made about potential racist stereotyping and bias in their homework assignments.
Over 25 years and two successful sequels later, with a fourth currently in pre-production, 'Bad Boys' director Michael Bay says the $840 million franchise's longtime distributor Sony Pictures originally didn't think it would even be a success with two Black actors in the leading roles.
Her life mattered not just because she helped spark the nation's consciousness but because Breonna deserved to live her life to the fullest.
Osaka got emotional when talking about the incident after her match with Kudermatova, comparing it to Serena and Venus Williams being heckled at the BNP Paribas Open.
Electronic road signs are not in place for recreational use in the form of joking around, especially if said message happens to be a racial slur like the one that appeared on U.S. Route 40 in Maryland recently in a case that's now being investigated as a hate crime.
Following a longstanding lawsuit that saw Toni Morrison's historic book 'The Bluest Eye' taken off shelves at libraries throughout the Missouri School District, a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union has now resulted in the book being returned to its rightful place.
Critics say Missouri Senate Bill 666 (yes, really) -- dubbed the "Make Murder Legal Act" -- would shield killers from prosecution and protect the "lynching of Black men."
The road to confirmation for a Black woman will not be easy.
