60,000 call for justice for Tamir Rice
"We're here eight months later and there's still no justice," Tamir's cousin and the committee's coordinator told a rally and press conference before entering with a delegation to deliver the petitions.
Sandra Bland's jailers spinning autopsy results
The trooper plainly didn't like Bland's forthright defense of her civil rights; in Texas, you can be prosecuted for resisting arrest even if the actual arrest was illegal.
Justice for Tamir Rice dealt legal blow ahead of civil rights conference
An Ohio appeals court declined to force the arrest of the Cleveland police officers involved in the murder of 12-year old Tamir Rice.
Dead at 28, Sandra Bland's Texas dream turned nightmare
According to federal statistics, an African-American driver is 31 percent more likely to be pulled over for a traffic citation.
Angela Davis speaks on violence in America at St. Louis meeting
St. Louis area residents gathered for the Violence in America: Exposure through Truth Telling presentation keynoted by Angela Davis.
Marchers in Phoenix demand an “Arpaio-free” Arizona
"We won't have justice in Maricopa County until Federal immigration agents get out of the county jail and stop relying on prejudiced policies."
Government’s case against Rosenbergs gutted by release of key testimony
"It's time for the government to admit that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy and that Julius was not an atomic spy."
Freedom fighting: also a Southern tradition
Many white people in the South held no one in captivity. Lies and false fear, not ideals, were used to convince them to vote for leaving the Union.
Three in a row: SCOTUS upholds marriage equality, Obamacare, Fair Housing Act
"These decisions show how much is at stake in our nation's highest court and how critical it is that Americans consider the Supreme Court as we choose our next president."
Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality
"Today's ruling affirms what millions already know to be true: the four words etched onto the front of the Supreme Court - equal justice under law - apply to us."
