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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Monday that he plans to nominate a conservative California attorney to lead a critical division of the Department of Justice. Harmeet Dhillon, a former vice chairwoman of the California GOP and a national committeewoman for

Earlier this month, former Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols (D) was elected the first Black mayor of Tulsa. Among other plans, Nichols wants to help heal a community still grappling with the legacy of a racist massacre that killed at

A federal jury acquitted two former Memphis police officers on Thursday for violating the civil rights of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, in January 2023 during a traffic stop just minutes away from his parents’ home. They were convicted

The Department of Justice announced on Monday a federal review into the two-day racist massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, more than 100 years ago, when white supremacists killed Black civilians while destroying homes and thriving businesses in the predominantly Black community.

The police department in a majority-Black town in Mississippi has consistently violated the rights of residents with illegal arrests, as well as by retaliating against department critics, according to a Department of Justice report released Thursday. The Justice Department launched

The New York City Police Department failed to discipline officers for violating the rights of citizens during controversial “stop-and-frisk” encounters, according to a review ordered by a federal judge. While the city’s police department has made efforts to investigate internal

Multiple former Memphis police officers condemned the policing tactics of their own department during high-profile testimony this week in the federal trial against three officers who participated in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols on Jan. 7, 2023, after a

The Department of Justice announced Thursday it is opening a civil rights investigation into potentially racist policing practices within the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi. In April, five deputies from Rankin County were sentenced to prison for violating the

MEMPHIS — Memphis Police Department Lt. Larnce Wright said Thursday that three former officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, did not follow department policy when they beat him in January 2023 — testimony that