Posts in category Civil Rights

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON – To supporters, zero-tolerance policing has long represented a logical crime-fighting approach: Crack down on minor infractions before they …

By DANIEL C. HOUSTON Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma’s first black state senator, one of the state’s most prominent civil rights leaders, died at …

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK – The latest deaths of black people at the hands of police led Jaime Sunwoo to undertake something …

TALLAHASSEE -Leander Shaw, who served as the Florida Supreme Court’s first African-American chief justice, died early Monday after a lengthy illness, the court announced. He …

HOUSTON (AP) – Activists are demanding the release of video footage that may show the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American man by a police …

Chief Thomas Burke has resigned from the Farrell, Pennsylvania Police Department over a racist email he circulated to the community. “Even $1.00 will be greatly …

By BILL BARROW COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told a group of African-American civic leaders on Saturday that he is still …

On President Obama’s inauguration day back in 2009, Fox news proclaimed, “America has transcended race.” For a generation born in the 1990’s who had grown …

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – A white man accused of distributing Ku Klux Klan recruitment fliers to the homes of two minority women pleaded not guilty …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The longtime head of an organization considered the lobbying arm of the civil rights movement announced Wednesday that he will step down …