Social Justice

Demonstrators have defaced and toppled statues and busts of former U.S. presidents, a Spanish missionary and Confederate figures as anti-racism protests continue in the U.S.

The marches mark nearly four weeks of civil unrest following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Juneteenth is more than a remembrance of the day in 1865 when 2000 Union troops marched into Galveston Texas, and told enslaved blacks they were free.

Juneteenth celebrations mark word of the end of slavery arriving in Texas on June 19, 1865, but people enslaved in Delaware were still not freed until months later.

The Trump administration rule would overturn Obama-era sex discrimination protections for transgender people in health care.

On this and every subsequent Juneteenth, the platform intends to direct its usual revenue share to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

The guidance said prosecutors can’t adopt a blanket policy of not charging people for refusing to comply with restrictions on the number of people who can gather in one place.

The high court ruled that the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” way when it moved to end DACA.

As Rayshard Brooks lay dying, prosecutors say the Atlanta police officer who shot him in the back kicked him and didn’t give him medical attention for more than two minutes.

After weeks of protest, Philly Council passed a preliminary budget plan that responds to calls for reprioritization in spending.

The package would include capital investments in poor neighborhoods, as well as millions more on job training, rent subsidies and basic income support.

The massacre shocked the nation and prompted a racial dialogue in the city. Those same issues resonate today amid the national outcry over recent incidents of police brutality

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard made the announcement about officer Garrett Rolfe during a news conference.

In the complaint, the Federal Bureau of Investigation lays out how it came to detain Blumenthal in granular detail using social media and internet sleuthing.

About half of American adults now say police violence against the public is a “very” or “extremely” serious problem, up from about a third as recently as September last year.