racial justice

The case of three white men charged with murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery is now with the jury

Both trials have made national headlines and could have important implications for the racial justice movement in the U.S., legal experts say.

A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws

On Oct. 22, Mary MacCarthy booked a last-minute flight from LA to Denver because her brother had suddenly died the night before.

Fred Ware and his son were researching the history of the home he’s owned in Manchester, in the Hartford suburbs, since 1950 when they discovered something far uglier than they expected. Tucked in a list of rules on the home’s original deed from the developer was a provision that said: “No persons of any race other than the white...

Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, is stepping down as executive director of the movement’s foundation.

A Black Indianapolis homeowner who had a nagging suspicion that her house was lowballed in two appraisals last year says the value of her house doubled after she asked a white friend to stand in for her during a third appraisal, NBC News reports.

Chauvin’s arrest, trial and subsequent conviction were hailed as watershed moments. But now a year later following Floyd’s death the question must be asked… has anything actually changed?

In Sen. Tim Scott’s rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress, the Republican from South Carolina discussed his own experience with discrimination and said ‘people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven’t made any progress at all.’

A financial snapshot shared exclusively with The Associated Press shows the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation took in just over $90 million last year

Few outside the Georgia port city of Brunswick paid notice in the days and weeks after Ahmaud Arbery was pursued and shot to death by white men who saw him running in their neighborhood

Purcell Conway, a civil rights activist who was part of the “wade-ins” that led to the beginning of desegregation of St. Augustine Beach in Florida, talk about his experiences with the violence he faced at his wade-in and the work that still needs to be done beyond the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Dr. Edward S. Cooper talks about his own medical legacy in the field of stroke research and treatment, and what more needs to be done to lessen the health gap for Black Americans.

Dr. Cooper recalls one life-threatening experience during his internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital that shaped his approach to patient care and medicinal treatment.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has removed the name of four-term governor and presidential candidate George C. Wallace from a campus building over his support of racial segregation

President Joe Biden has ordered the Department of Justice to end its reliance on private prisons and acknowledge the central role the government has played implementing discriminatory housing policies

Martin Luther King Jr.’s son says one of the biggest lesson he learned from his parents was the importance of loving yourself. Martin Luther King III joined LX News to talk about his father’s legacy as a civil rights trailblazer and as a dad.

The NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund is launching a scholarship program to create a new generation of civil rights lawyers

For many, Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. is still best known for his “I Have A Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington. But Emory University’s political science professor Andra Gillespie says Dr. King’s legacy is more complex and significant than those inspirational words. She joined LX News to talk about the uncomfortable conversations Americans still need...

A former Minneapolis police officer who held his knee to George Floyd’s neck for minutes will be tried separately from three other former officers accused in his death