Data Show Racial Bias in Missouri Firearm Possession Convictions
Over 3,600 people were convicted between 2015 and 2021 for federal firearm possession in Missouri, which outranks the rest of the nation...
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May 17, 20221 min read
Delaware State U. Complaining to DOJ Over Bus Traffic Stop
Delaware State University, a historically Black institution in Dover, De., said it will file a formal complaint with the U.S. Justice...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 28, 20222 min read
MN Report Accuses Minneapolis Police of Longtime Racial Bias
The Minneapolis Police Department has engaged in race discrimination for at least a decade, including stopping and arresting Black people...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 18, 20222 min read
Anxiety Levels Can Be High in Blacks' Interactions With Police
The video seems clear: Patrick Lyoya disobeyed a Grand Rapids, Mi., police officer during a traffic stop, tried to run, then wrestled...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Black, Hispanic Youth More Likely To Live In Areas With Homicides
In the five years before 2020, nine million children ages five to 17 lived in a Census tract where there had been at least one gun...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 18, 20222 min read
FBI Identifies Six Juveniles in Probe of Threats to Black Colleges
Federal law enforcement officials have narrowed the list of suspects in the threats made to historically black colleges to six juveniles,...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 2, 20222 min read
Arbery Juror Foreman Laments 'So Much Hatred' Among Defendants
Marcus Ransom, foreman of the jury in the case against three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, was the only Black man...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 22, 20222 min read
Amir Locke's Killing Shows Disparity in Treatment of Black Gun Owners
Relatives and friends of Amir Locke, who was killed by Minneapolis police Feb. 2 as they executed a no-knock warrant on the apartment...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 21, 20222 min read
Urban Institute, Microsoft Offer Grants on Racial Issues, Data
The U.S. justice system disproportionately harms communities of color, especially Black communities. Racism and racial biases are deeply...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 17, 20221 min read
Racist Texts Surface In Arbery Murder Civil-Rights Trial
Two of the three white men convicted of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder in Georgia repeatedly used racial slurs on social media and in text...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 17, 20221 min read
NJ Police Response to Teen Fight Seen as Example of Racial Bias
A video of Bridgewater, N.J., police officers responding to a fight between teenagers is being seen as a new example of racial bias in...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 14, 20222 min read
Ugly Race Evidence Due in Federal Trial Over Arbery Killing
The killing of George Floyd catalyzed a period of national soul-searching about race and racism. In high-profile trials since then —...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 4, 20221 min read
Greg and Travis McMichael To Stand Federal Trial in Arbery Case
Greg McMichael and his son Travis, both convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, have reversed their planned guilty pleas to a federal...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20221 min read
Historically Black Colleges Around U.S. Threatened With Bombs
At least 16 historically Black colleges and universities said they received bomb threats Tuesday, disrupting or cancelling classes. On...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 28, 20222 min read
Does Ignoring Black Women's Killings Suggest They're 'Disposable'?
Three recent killings in the Los Angeles area have put the spotlight on the disparate impact of gun violence on Black women and the lack...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 26, 20221 min read
Black Man Sues NV Police For Jailing Him In Confusion Over Name
Shane Lee Brown is suing police departments in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nv., and several officers after they jailed him for six days,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 21, 20221 min read
Mostly White Jury In Civil Rights Trial Over George Floyd Killing
The jury in the federal civil rights trial of three Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's murder is mostly white,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 5, 20222 min read
Homer Plessy Getting Pardon 125 Years After Guilty Plea in Race Case
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will pardon Homer Plessy posthumously on Wednesday, more than a century after the Black man was arrested...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Louisiana Judge Resigns After Using Racial Slur in Video
A Louisiana judge who could be heard on a video using a racial slur while watching security footage of a foiled burglary outside her home...
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