Category: Politics

A Black man who was viciously mauled by a police dog in Ohio after a license plate reader falsely indicated he was driving a stolen car has agreed to a settlement. Brandon Upchurch was driving a red Dodge pickup truck with the license plate number JLL 7637 when he was pulled over after a license...

Black Americans are disproportionately affected by false police reports, so when Terrance Wadley defended himself, calling a white police officer “ridiculous,” he wasn’t overreacting. The father picked up his daughter from school at Kennedy Elementary in Mankato, Minnesota, and parked in the school parking lot, just like any other day — except this time, the...

A Black waitress at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Tennessee said she faced heinous racial harassment during her 10 years on the job from white coworkers and supervisors who were never held accountable for their actions. Roberta Mendez, who started working as a server at a Nashville-area Cracker Barrel in 2015, filed a federal lawsuit...

President Donald Trump is drawing criticism for his plan to posthumously award slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The award is presented at the president’s discretion to people who have made “an especially meritorious contribution” to the security or national interests of the country, world peace, cultural or other significant...

As President Donald Trump was dealt a legal blow in his campaign to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, fresh scrutiny has emerged over the hypocrisy at the heart of his attack. Late Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump from removing Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s Board of Governors,...