Civil Rights & Social Justice

Harris-Stowe State University, an HBCU in St. Louis, discriminated against a white professor based on race and gender, a jury found. The post White HBCU Professor Wins Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Harris-Stowe State University appeared first on NewsOne.

A wrongful death lawsuit is expected for Darryl Tyree Williams, an unarmed, handcuffed and Black, who died after being repeatedly tased by North Carolina cops. The post RIP Darryl Tyree Williams: Wrongful Death Lawsuit Seeks Justice For Black Man Tased To Death appeared first on NewsOne.

Alabama is accused of voter suppression after more than 6,000 voters in a Black voting district received incorrect voting information. The post Super Tuesday Voter Suppression Suspected In Alabama’s Newly Drawn Black Voter District appeared first on NewsOne.

As we remember the Tulsa Massacre 100 years later, let’s not only remember the violence but the actions of those who fought with the hope that it would never be repeated.

As the world observes the anniversary of George Floyd's murder, NewsOne's parent company iOne Digital invited an assortment of Black male artists to discuss the social impact that the notorious police violence in Minneapolis.

Mikayla's supporters plan to march to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan's office on May 21 to call for her resignation and to pressure law enforcement to turn the case over to the FBI.

Families of victims from the 1985 police bombing of Black liberation group MOVE's headquarters in Philadelphia learned remains previously thought destroyed were actually still intact.

Gregory McMichael, who is charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, asked his lawyer from a jail phone: “You’ve heard the saying that no good deed goes unpunished?”

Attorneys and supporters of Pamela Turner, a Black woman who was shot by a Texas officer during a fatal May 2019 encounter, are gathering on Thursday to call for the termination of the officer involved in her death.

Prosecutors dropped the charges against Juanisha Brooks, a Defense Department employee who who was forcibly removed from her car during a March 6 traffic stop in Alexandria, Virginia.

The expected signing of former NFL player Tim Tebow has prompted accusations of "white privilege" as free agent Colin Kaepernick continues getting snubbed for a second chance on the gridiron.

The probe directly contradicts the actions made by law enforcement authorities, namely former Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Yvette Gentry and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron.