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Austin Police Officer Gabriel Walker Prado faces a lawsuit after shooting Avelino Medel II, a 31-year-old man, inside his apartment while...

The Syracuse Common Council approved settlements totaling $390,000 for two police brutality cases from a 2016 incident in Armory Square....

Armond Rashad, a native Detroiter and owner of Jabs Gym, passionately presented on health and wellness at the Know Your Rights Camp,...

According to the Legal Aid Society, the city has paid over $82 million in police misconduct lawsuits this year, a 61% increase from the...

The LGBTQ community's relationship with police has been historically strained, marked by incidents such as raids on gay bars throughout...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has announced new measures to tighten voter registration protocols ahead of the 2024 presidential...

A 12-foot-tall bronze statue of John Lewis, the iconic civil rights leader and congressman, was installed in front of the DeKalb County...

On August 8, 1978, Philadelphia police surrounded a house occupied by the MOVE organization, a controversial and predominantly Black...

Latinos and Native Americans are disproportionately affected by police violence, often being much younger at the time of their deaths...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has seen a significant drop in the enrollment of Black and Latino students in its first...

Thomas Lane, one of the former Minneapolis police officers involved in the killing of George Floyd, was released from federal prison, as...

A U.S. District Court in Louisiana has issued a permanent injunction preventing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the...

The family of Arturo Cerna, a 34-year-old man shot and killed by LA County Sheriff's deputies in Carson last August, is suing LA County,...

Lawyers for Hasson Bacote, a Black man sentenced to death in 2009, are urging the court to commute his sentence to life in prison,...

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody has been charged with felony obstruction of justice, accused of persuading a potential witness to...

A Latino voting rights group is urging a federal investigation after volunteers reported that Texas authorities conducted raids on their...

This week, New College of Florida, a public liberal arts college, discarded hundreds of books, many related to LGBTQ issues, race, and...

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams is set to be resentenced to life without parole following a consent judgment announced by...

Alana Burke and Crystal Bernard are passionate about sharing Detroit's rich history with the youth at the Know Your Rights Camp. They...

An Arkansas officer, Joseph Harris, was fired after video footage surfaced showing him punching and elbowing a handcuffed man in the back...