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Ron DeSantis wants to use the Justice Department to bring civil rights cases against prosecutors

He previously condemned the ‘weaponisation’ of federal law enforcement against political opponents

The Independent UK

DeSantis Says He Would Use Justice Department To Bring Civil Rights Cases Against 'Soros-Funded Prosecutors'

DeSantis has already removed two reform prosecutors from office in Florida. A federal judge ruled he violated the First Amendment in one of those cases.

Reason

‘Once we win California, the nation is next’: what a caste discrimination ban means for Americans

State bill would address trauma by amending housing, labor and education codes to prohibit discrimination, leaders say

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Trump and his sons lash out at New York attorney general after stunning fraud ruling

‘My civil rights have been violated,’ Trump says on Truth Social

The Independent UK

Judge refuses to immediately block grant program for Black women entrepreneurs

A federal judge in Atlanta is allowing a venture capital firm to continue offering a grant program only to Black women entrepreneurs

The Independent UK

A black student’s family sues Texas' governor and AG over his suspension for his hairstyle

The family of a Black high school student in Texas has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general over being suspended by his school district for his hairstyle

The Independent UK

FBI investigates alleged abuse in Baton Rouge police building called the 'Brave Cave'

The FBI said Friday it has opened a civil rights investigation into allegations in recent lawsuits that police in Baton Rouge, La., assaulted drug suspects they detained in the obscure warehouse.

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FBI is investigating alleged abuse in Baton Rouge police warehouse known as the 'Brave Cave'

The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into claims in recent lawsuits that Baton Rouge police assaulted and strip-searched drug suspects they detained in an obscure warehouse known as the “Brave Cave.”

The Independent UK

Hollis Watkins, who was jailed multiple times for challenging segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82

Longtime Mississippi civil rights activist Hollis Watkins has died

The Independent UK

Federal judge sets May trial date for 5 former Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols beating

A judge has set a May trial date for five former Memphis police officers who have pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop

The Independent UK

Moonlighting Texas Prosecutor Sued

Ralph Petty worked part-time for Midland district judges while simultaneously prosecuting Clinton Young, who has now filed a lawsuit.

Texas Observer

Restoring the Voting Rights Act is still on this Alabama Democrat's agenda

Despite a divided Congress, Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama is still pushing to shore up the Voting Rights Act after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled key parts of the landmark law.

WEKU

Lawsuit by Islamic rights group says US terror watchlist woes continue even after names are removed

A lawsuit filed by an Islamic civil rights group challenges the constitutionality of the government's terror watchlist and says Muslims face negative repercussions even after they are able to clear their name off the list

The Independent UK

Johnson unveils city reforms to fight environmental racism

“In the greatest city in the world, no neighborhood should have to suffer the burdens of pollution more so than any other neighborhood,” the mayor said.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson urges Americans to confront ‘uncomfortable’ history of racist violence

Her address in Alabama commemorates a white supremacist attack that galvanised the civil rights movement

WEKU

Google Doodle honors Guatemalan-American labor activist Luisa Moreno

For the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month, labor organizer Luisa Moreno, who founded one of the first Latino civil rights assemblies in the U.S., inspired Friday's Google Doodle.

The Independent UK

Alabama will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls

Alabama is marking the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous acts during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 bombing of a church that killed four Black girls in 1963

The Independent UK

5th former Memphis officer pleads not guilty to federal civil rights charges in Tyre Nichols' death

A fifth former Memphis police officer has pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop

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Lessons from Birmingham: 60 years after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

This city is remembering a dark chapters in U.S. civil rights history. On September 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church, killing four Black girls and rocking the conscience of the nation.

The Independent UK

4 former officers plead not guilty to federal civil rights charges in Tyre Nichols beating

Four former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal civil rights charges in the violent beating and death of Tyre Nichols during a traffic stop nine months ago

Fortune

13 civil rights groups just formed a coalition to defend workplaces against the ‘anti-woke’ movement

"We need to make sure that we rise up because the threats to black and brown people in this country are very real," said Alphonso David, president and CEO of the Global Black Economic Forum.

The Independent UK

'Rustin' puts a spotlight on a undersung civil rights hero

Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington, who often worked tirelessly out of the limelight, takes center stage in the new Netflix drama “Rustin.”

The Guardian - US

Rustin review – Colman Domingo shines in by-the-numbers civil rights biopic

Story of Bayard Rustin, an often unsung Black queer man who fought alongside Martin Luther King, is adapted into a rousing, if creaky, drama

The Independent UK

5 former officers charged in death of Tyre Nichols are now also facing federal charges

Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with federal civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols

The Independent UK

Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols death face federal civil rights indictment

Harrowing surveillance footage captured officers beating the 29-year-old man after a traffic stop in January

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