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Several Republican States Team Up To Stop Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

Republican states have come together to sue The White House claiming President Biden is overstepping his executive…

Murjani Rawls

Yesterday 10:13AM

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A New Jersey Bank Just Got Hit With a Federal Consent Order For Discriminating Against Black Homebuyers

The Justice Department says redlining was still alive and well at Lakeland Bank.

Keith Reed

Wednesday 11:57AM

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DOJ Says Florida Republicans Specifically Targeted Black Voters With Restrictions

Florida's SB 90 law wants to restrict the availability of absentee ballot drop boxes and food and water access at…

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Warren Buffett-Owned Mortgage Company Discriminated Against Black Homeowners

The settlement between Trident Mortgage Co. and the DOJ is the “second-largest redlining settlement in history.”

Murjani Rawls

7/27/22 3:21PM

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Federal Jury Charges Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio with Conspiracy in US Capitol Riot

Five other members of the far-right group were also charged in the indictment including the leader of the Oath…

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Civil Rights Groups Request Department of Justice To Reject Past Racist Supreme Court Rulings

The "Insular Cases" stated that people living in U.S. territories do not possess the same rights under the U.S.…

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Activists Follow the Example of the Freedom Riders During a Trip to Promote Rights for Black Voters

The bus trip traveled the reverse route that the original Freedom Riders took through various Southern states in the…

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The Trump Administration Secretly Seized the Phone Records of 4 New York Times Reporters

In an attempt to stop the Titanic-sized leaks coming from inside the White House, the Trump administration, enabled…

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

6/03/21 2:30PM

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Court Documents Allege That Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Plotted to Work Together Before Capitol Riot

As time has gone on and more information has been revealed, the Capitol riot is looking less like a spontaneous…

Joe Jurado

3/24/21 6:00PM

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West Virginia Lawmaker Who Recorded Himself Breaking Into the Capitol Faces Criminal Charge

Hey, real quick, remember the West Virginia lawmaker we recorded himself breaking into the Capitol during the failed…

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Justice Department Makes Moves to Undo Certain Civil Rights Protections

Instead of just filing a two-week notice and coasting until Inauguration Day, the Justice Department has opted to…

Joe Jurado

1/06/21 3:30PM

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Boogaloo Boys Charged With Attempting to Sell Weapons to Overseas Terrorist Organization

Further proving that white people simply won’t let America be great, a group of Boogaloo Boys have been charged with…

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Robert Smith, Billionaire Who Promised to Pay Off Morehouse Student Loans, Committed Tax Fraud

Remember last year when billionaire Robert Smith told students graduating from Morehouse College he was going to pay…

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Federal Charges for Black Lives Matter Protesters Even More Appalling in Light of Breonna Taylor Indictment

In light of the charges filed against former Louisville Metro police officer Brett Hankison in Kentucky last week,…

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The Justice Department Wants to Defend Trump in Defamation Suit by Author Accusing the President of Rape

In what can only be described as the most fuckity fuckshit coming out of September (I would love to say this year,…

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

9/09/20 10:00AM

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Kenosha Police Release Incomplete Report of Jacob Blake Shooting, Claims He Had a Knife in the Car; FBI to Investigate

Three days after Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake multiple times in the back in front of his three children, the…

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Jay-Z, Rihanna and More Urge Department of Justice to Re-Examine Death of Danroy 'DJ' Henry

In a new letter sent to U.S. Attorney General William Barr, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Pharrell Williams, Taraji P. Henson,…

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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Police Reform Bills. No, Seriously...Everything

Right now, two separate and unequal policing bills are navigating their way through America’s highest legislative…

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DEA Granted Authority to ‘Conduct Covert Surveillance’ on George Floyd Protesters

The Drug Enforcement Administration is supposed to be exactly what it sounds like—an agency tasked with combatting…

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Family Attorney Says DOJ Is Investigating Ahmaud Arbery's Death as a Hate Crime

Ahmaud Arbery’s family attorney, S. Lee Merritt, says the Department of Justice is investigating the shooting death…

Anne Branigin

5/26/20 9:39AM

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