Supreme Court Gives Texas Death Row Inmate New Hearing Over Racial Bias
The U.S. Supreme Court has sent the strongest signal yet that race should not be a factor in sentencing in a death...Read More
Duane Buck Case Raises Allegations of Racism in the Texas Judicial System
Allegations of racism in the criminal justice system are nothing new but a high profile case in Texas has led to soul...Read More
Questions Linger Over the Death of Sandra Bland in a Texas Jail Cell
The deaths of African Americans at the hands of police officers have dominated headlines nationally over the last 18 months. Texas has...Read More
Justice Department Report Highlights Tainted Criminal Justice System in Ferguson
A damning report into the way crime is handled in Ferguson, MO., has confirmed that not all local criminal justice systems are...Read More
United Nations Expresses Concern over Grand Jury Acquittals of Police Accused of Killings of African Americans
In 2012, there was an angry demonstration in Dallas, Texas when police shot and killed James Harper. Harper, an African American, was...Read More
Americans Believe the Civil Justice System is Racist
A summer of civil disturbance in Ferguson, Missouri, after the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer,...Read More