Posts in category Civil Rights

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 …

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – President Barack Obama toured a drug rehab and met with former inmates Monday in the rough-and-tumble city of Newark, calling on …

MIMS, Fla. (AP) – The daughter of two Florida civil rights leaders who were killed when their home was bombed on Christmas night in 1951 …

Riviera Beach, Fla. — Attorney Edwin Ferguson said he has been interested in educating the community about their rights as they relate to police encounters …