California's death penalty system has been shown to be racially discriminatory, with Black and Latino defendants up to 8.7 ...

Racial disparities in parole decisions continue to worsen across New York state, ... said it’s “not surprising to see racial disparities in our criminal justice system. ...

A discrepancy with "no rational explanation" is causing criminal justice advocates to call for Governor Kathy Hochul to make changes to New York's parole board, and for the legislature to pass ...

A new systematic review finds that Black students are still consistently punished more than their white peers, even after a ...

Organizers said Black and Brown companies were disproportionately affected by the war on drugs, so the state needs to make ...

After a University of Virginia study indicated that black youth are disproportionately represented in the local juvenile justice system, a Charlottesville-based attorney is asking the City Council ...

REEM will officially end June 30. After its formation in 2020, REEM enlisted 36 commissioners — a mix including public ...

As our nation and state grieve the devastating attack on two Minnesota lawmakers and their families on June 14, we reflect on ...

A scholar of extremism writes that the use of the term often obscures deeper societal issues such as rising political ...

Despite attacks on DEI and colleges, HBCUs endure through bipartisan support. At the start of the year, historically Black ...

Starting in the late 1990s and 2000s, Wisconsin’s “truth-in-sentencing” law, which requires people convicted of crimes to serve their full prison sentences with longer paroles, resulted in both a ...

Ariana Grande is using her star power to call out injustice, inequality, and what she sees as America’s dangerously misplaced ...