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Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old unarmed black man who was shot dead by police in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, died of a "piercing gunshot wound to the head," according to his death certificate, according to CNN. Brown was…

AIn the midst of news coverage of the troubling death of Daunte Wright and the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed George Floyd, it's no surprise that a recent civil rights victory has been largely overlooked. On April 13,…

One Republican legislature used a racist bow on the floor of the Arizona state legislature and then asked another black legislator to sit down and not speak. On Tuesday, Republican Travis Grantham interrupted Democrat…

A family member of a 15-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio says she called the police at around 4:30 p.m. local time Tuesday. A quarter of an hour later, the police were there and shot them, reports WBNS. "The family says…

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki replied a reporter from the right-wing website Newsmax, who asked if President Joe Biden would dismiss the US ambassador to the United Nations. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield joined…

Joe Gutierrez, the Windsor, Virginia police officer who sprayed pepper spray on a Black and Latino Army officer has been fired, but apparently only in response to growing national outrage after a video showing the "illegal…

The driver reluctantly stopped after calling Woodard "boy".Woodard, who had just returned from more than three years of military service in the Pacific, stood up for himself and other black veterans and told the driver not to speak to him…

Rep. John Kavanagh, chairman of the government and electoral committee in the Arizona House, says not everyone should vote and "the quality of the votes" is important. One of the best voting rights experts in the country breaks this…

Black women at the forefront of the struggle for civil rights Throughout March, we honor women's contributions. In this story we discuss the role of black women in the civil rights movement…

Mellody Hobson has received company promises over the years to increase workplace diversity. Starbucks corps SBUX 0.46%…