Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election,…
Police can’t access LAPD gang database records after scandal
The California attorney general made it impossible for law enforcement agencies to access entries that Los Angeles police made in…
Mississippi could drop Jim Crow-era statewide voting process
Mississippi just ditched its Confederate-themed state flag By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press July 4, 2020, 12:10 PM 4 min…
Thousands mourn George Floyd in Texas amid calls for reform
HOUSTON — The last chance for the public to say goodbye to George Floyd drew thousands of mourners Monday to…
West Virginia governor defends himself after Obama comment
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is continuing to defend himself after making comments about not wanting former President Barack Obama…
N. Carolina principal sorry for racial remark during meeting
A school principal in North Carolina apologized after making a reference to “colored folks” during a staff meeting May 5,…
Bobby Lee Verdugo, leader of 1968 LA school walkout, dies
Bobby Lee Verdugo, one of the leaders of the 1968 East Los Angeles high school walkout to protest discrimination and…
Civil rights leader, MLK aide Joseph Lowery dies at 98
ATLANTA — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.…
Professor suspended for calling police on black student
An Indiana university says a white professor accused of discrimination after he called university police to his classroom because a…
W.Va. governor denies racism over ‘thugs’ basketball comment
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says it’s absurd to accuse him of racism for calling a high school girls basketball…
Texas lawmakers are drafting a hair discrimination bill
The Texas Legislative Black Caucus announced it’s working on a bill that would ban discrimination based on hair textures and…
Tennessee inmates ask court to stop execution scheduling
Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmates argue that mental issues, poor legal representation, newly surfaced evidence, and racism in the…
Police: Man using racist slurs killed in Waffle House fight
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a man was shot to death at a Waffle House after calling other patrons…
Norway arrests US far-right activist, seeks deportation
Norwegian authorities have arrested a high-profile U.S. white supremacist scheduled to speak at an international far-right conference in Oslo and…
Washington state to vote on affirmative action referendum
More than two decades after Washington state voters banned affirmative action, the question of whether one’s minority status should be…
Portland, Oregon, braces for far-right rally, counterprotest
Portland police are mobilizing to prevent clashes between out-of-state far-right groups planning a rally here and the homegrown anti-fascists who…
Activists allege racism in treatment of St. Louis prosecutor
Some black activists in St. Louis say there’s an unfair racial component to criticism of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim…
YouTube updates hate speech guidelines to prohibit videos
YouTube updated its hate speech policies Wednesday to prohibit videos with white supremacy and neo-Nazi viewpoints. Interested in YouTube? Add…
White supremacist gets life for running down black man
A white supremacist who ran down and killed a young black man in Oregon two years ago was sentenced Tuesday…
California police report almost no racial profiling
California’s first-in-the-nation attempt to track racial profiling complaints against police produced numbers so unrealistically small that the board overseeing the…
Group defends article on Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic views
A Detroit-area historical group is protesting a mayor’s decision to stop it from sending out the latest issue of its…