Social Justice

Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck.

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick announced the start of a new initiative to offer free second autopsies to family members of anyone whose death is "police-related."

The Department of the Interior is seeking public comment on name replacements for the more than 660 geographic features that contain the word.

For decades, Black state lawmakers have tried unsuccessfully to move legislation that would require New Jersey to talk about reparations.

Bennetch died last week of COVID at age 36.

The officer testified that he didn’t realize how dire Floyd’s condition was until paramedics turned him over.

The event is usually on MLK Day but was postponed until Presidents Day this year because of the record-setting COVID spike in January.

Conservative takeovers of local school boards have already altered lessons on race and social injustice in many classrooms.

“It’s a major disappointment and it’s a major flaw in trying to identify those communities that have been hit hardest by pollution,” said Robert Bullard.

We reflect on the Olympics, the athletics and the controversies, including the Russian skater doping scandal, and discuss China's human rights abuses against the Uyghurs.

MLK’s daughter, CEO of the King Center, offered advice to students hoping to fight racial and economic inequities, and talked about building coalitions.

A former Philadelphia police inspector who was filmed striking protestors in June 2020 is facing a new civil rights lawsuit.

Fueled by the national reckoning with racial injustice, opponents say they are gaining momentum in the battle over the contentious policy of legacy preferences.

For the first time, the Delaware Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has won a conviction at trial on felony hate crime charges.

TikTok is updating its community guidelines to ban deadnaming, misgendering, and misogyny.