civil rights

In an effort to bring awareness to this ongoing injustice, the Health Equity, Law, and Policy Institute will host its inaugural Henrietta Lacks Symposium scheduled for March 14 at the Southern University Law Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Justice Department and U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Roderick Douglas, a former supervisor at the Richwood Correctional Center, pleaded…

Mississippi's corrections department says Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 'Mississippi Burning' slayings of…

Family members of Emmett Till are pushing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to push for enforcement of a law that allows prosecutors to reinvestigate old…