An 8-year-old Native American boy who had grown out his hair to honor his ancestry was made to get a haircut after being threatened with suspension from school, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas MORE
The jury was deadlocked on both counts against former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, who fired stray bullets in the raid. The Associated Press is reporting that jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on MORE
According to the Huffington Post, “Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones (D) declared that Americans “don’t have to live this way” and slammed “asinine” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday following a deadly Jacksonville store shooting that a local sheriff described as MORE
NAACP: On Aug. 28, 1963, more than a quarter million people participated in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, gathering near the Lincoln Memorial. More than 3,000 members of the press covered MORE
A small town newspaper owner and publisher in Kansas had his office and home raided on Friday by local law enforcement officers, who seized computers, cell phones, and other materials. The city’s entire five-officer police MORE
A Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care, including hormone therapies, puberty blockers and gender-affirming surgery on minors will be allowed to go into effect following an appeals court ruling to reinstate the law. On June MORE
Jordan Neely died on a New York City subway after a man put him in a chokehold for several minutes while two others held his arms down. The incident has been ruled a homicide by MORE
Former NBA star, Dwyane Wade, says he left Florida because he feels his family “would not be accepted there or feel comfortable there” because of anti-LGBTQ+ policies in the state. Wade has a 15-year-old daughter, MORE
In August of 1955, Carolyn Bryant, age 21, accused Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, of making sexual advances toward her in her husband’s store in Money, Mississippi. From the New York Times: With Bryant’s death, MORE
The night before, Dr. King delivered his Mountaintop Speech saying “I’ve seen the Promised Land…” Tuesday, April 4, marks the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Despite yearly commemorations MORE
A Disney film that tells of a 6-year-old’s integration into a white school in 1960’s New Orleans has never caused a disturbance until this year in a Pinellas County Florida elementary school. A staple of MORE
From The Hill: The family of Malcolm X, the civil rights icon who was assassinated [on Feb. 21] 1965, will file a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against federal and state government agencies for allegedly MORE
Now students are planning a statewide walkout. DeSantis asked to see the records of any student who has experienced gender dysphoria in the past five years. In addition, he wants their ages and the dates they received MORE
Evan Lambert, a NewsNation reporter, was arrested on Feb. 8 while doing a live shot at a news conference where the governor of Ohio was speaking. The Ohio Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Section was appointed MORE
The Pledge: As a member of First Baptist Church, I believe that God creates people in his image as either male or female, and that this creation is a fixed matter of human biology, not MORE
Three black students from Effingham County School District (GA) have filed a Civil Rights lawsuit against the district for “deliberate indifference to acts of racial animosity” toward Black students. The lawsuit also alleges school administrators MORE
Washington — The House on Thursday approved legislation that provides federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages, sending the landmark bill to President Biden’s desk for his signature and capping a decades-long shift in Americans’ attitudes MORE
THE THIN BLUE LINE An attorney for a North Carolina man is calling for a criminal investigation into why his client, a 41-year-old Black man, was beaten while in custody at the Camden County, Georgia, MORE
A group launched by longtime Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller has been quietly running radio ads warning white voters that the Biden administration is pursuing a host of policies designed to hurt them because of MORE
On Friday, Kern County Judge Eric Bradshaw, (same county Qevin McQarthy hails from), ruled that the owner of Tastries Bakery, Cathy Miller, can not be forced to bake wedding cakes for same-sex couples because “she MORE
Just In: City Council President is resigning today after initially agreeing only to take a leave of absence. During the leaked conversation, reportedly recorded a year ago, Martinez mocked the Indigenous Oxacan community, calling them “little MORE
In the 1960s, Southern organizations tried sending African Americans to Northern states in a “cheap” PR stunt designed to embarrass and expose Northern liberals. It didn’t work. In the spring of 1962, David Harris, a MORE
Laurens County’s School District Superintendent Clifford Garnto told 13-WMAZ, “we are truly disappointed in the choices of these students.” He said they are investigating. The local chapter of the NAACP is seeking a meeting with MORE
Banking While Black Lizzie Pugh, a Black Detroit public schools retiree, has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that white employees at Fifth Third Bank in Livonia refused to cash and deposit her slot machine jackpot MORE
A panel of Florida judges ruled Monday that a parentless 16-year-old failed to prove she’s mature enough to get an abortion—leaving her to give birth and, potentially, raise a child instead. The anonymous 16-year-old, who MORE