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WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is leading an effort to create a federal office for missing and murdered Black women and girls that mirrors a new Minnesota law. “I want there to be an urgent and delicate response when families and loved ones call about their missing relative,” the Minnesota Democrat said in an […]
A family member of a slain Black 14-year-old is calling for a white Kansas teen to be tried on federal hate crime charges in the shooting death September 16, 2023, 7:03 PM ET • 2 min read LAWRENCE, Kan. — A relative of a slain Black 14-year-old is calling for a white Kansas teen to […]
After two days of competition, Chuck Black of Belgrade, Montana, emerged as the winner of the 2023 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with an oil painting of a northern pintail. The announcement was made at an event and via live stream at the Olmstead Center at . . .
[1/3]U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith makes a statement to reporters after a grand jury returned an indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump in the special counsel’s investigation of efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, at Smith’s offices in Washington, U.S. August 1, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin
A federal judge in Texas ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is overstepping its bounds in its attempts to check whether banks and other financial firms are discriminating against Black Americans and other minorities. The case was brought last year by big trade organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Bankers […]
Media Contacts Ella Wiley, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) – media@naacpldf.org/212-965-2200Brad Wise, NewsPros – Reed Smith LLP – brad@newspros.com/925-588-4744Linda Yun, ArentFox Schiff – linda.yun@afslaw.com/312-258-4504Jackie Dilworth, The Arc – dilworth@thearc.org /202-617-3271Kerry-Ann Hamilton, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. – inquiries@deltasigmatheta.org/301-265-5100Emaan England, Houston Area Urban League – eengland@haul.org/404-668-2329 [San Antonio, Texas] – Today, the United States District Court […]
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a South Dakota Republican party rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S. September 8, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Acquire Licensing Rights
Flags fly at half-mast over the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama on July 26, 2020. Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/ Reuters. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal judges said Tuesday that they will draft new congressional lines for Alabama after lawmakers refused to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising […]
More than a quarter of the nation’s federal district courts have never had even one black judge. That’s the takeaway from a new investigation by Bloomberg Law’s Tiana Headley and Andrew Satter. Listen here and subscribe to On The Merits on
A panel of federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest congressional map on Tuesday, ruling that a new map needed to be drawn because Republican lawmakers had failed to comply with orders to create a second majority-Black district or something “close to it.” In a sharp rebuke, the judges ordered that the new map be independently drawn, […]