Legal
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Police Killing Cost St. Paul The Fattest Check in City History
Here’s how much a federal jury awarded the mother of a Black man shot to death by two local cops.
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Travis Scott’s Lawyer Claims Houston Police Report on 2021 Astroworld Tragedy Was Meant to Hurt UTOPIA Sales
The family of a 10-year-old boy who was killed at the festival argues that the comments from Scott’s lawyer were “tone-deaf.”
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Witness to Malcom X Assassination Says NYPD Helped Shooter Escape
Generations of Black folks have always believed law enforcement was in on the hit. Could a lawsuit by Malcolm’s daughters prove it?
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Drug Dealer Connected to Michael K. Williams Overdose Receives Surprising Sentence
Carlos Macci, a 72-year-old drug dealer, was arrested for drug trafficking in connection with The Wire star’s overdose in September 2021.
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SCOTUS Ruled In Favor of Protecting Black Alabama Voters — The State GOP Ignored Them
Alabama’s Republican-led state legislature proposed a new map with only one majority-Black district. The Supreme Court already told them to draw two.
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Hold Up! Democratic AGs Say GOP Is Dead Wrong on Company DEI Programs
Democratic attorneys general argued that the SCOTUS affirmative action decision does not apply to hiring practices at private companies.
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Why Is Rapper G Herbo Facing Up to 20 Years in Prison?
After agreeing to plead guilty to wire fraud, identity theft, and lying to federal agents, the successful rapper is looking at a long time in prison.
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Democrats Just Got One Crucial Step Closer To Holding SCOTUS Accountable
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill which would impose sweeping ethics rules on the Supreme Court in the wake of numerous ethics scandals.
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Several Senior Level Black Women Are No Longer in DEI, Exec Roles. Now Hollywood Might Have To Answer for It
These senior VP women held roles across several big name companies such as Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney.