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Civil rights groups and researchers are sounding the alarm over a Trump administration plan that would end a workplace reporting requirement in place for six decades. Their warning is simple. Without the data, discrimination against Black workers becomes much harder to see, track, and prove. The requirement in question is the annual EEO-1 report. Since 1966, private employers with at least 100 workers, along with certain federal contractors with at least 50 employees, have ha

Ten days after dashcam video showed an Arkansas state trooper slamming an 18-year-old Black woman to the ground and punching her in the face, Alisa Hackett is suing the officer. She is bringing the case against Trooper Moisses Arellano over a traffic stop on August 1 near Manila, Arkansas. According to the account, Arellano pulled Hackett over for speeding, saying he clocked her at 71 miles per hour in a 60 zone with her hazard lights on. Hackett has said she was rushing home

Across the country, Black communities have been tracking a painful pattern. Black people are turning up dead in unclear circumstances, and local officials are moving quickly to label those deaths, often as suicides, before families feel any real investigation has happened. A number of Black people have reportedly been found hanging from trees this year, and the speed of the official rulings has become its own source of grief and suspicion. The most recent case is Tasia Fortun

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is calling on President Trump directly to restore Temporary Protected Status for Haitian nationals, pointing to the role Haitians play in the city’s economy and its broader welfare. The Trump administration’s decision to halt TPS for more than 300,000 Haitians has rippled through communities across the country. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Mamdani said he told the president plainly that the issue is of immense importance to the

A federal judge has ordered a Virginia school board to strip two Confederate names off its schools, ruling that the board’s 2024 decision to restore them discriminated against Black students. The ruling is the latest turn in a fight that started when the Virginia NAACP sued after the board reversed changes it had made during the 2020 racial justice protests. In an opinion filed in U.S. District Court, Judge Michael F. Urbanski found that the Shenandoah County School Board vio

Seven years after a police officer shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson inside her own home, her family has reached a settlement with the city of Fort Worth. The city has agreed to pay 11.25 million dollars to Jefferson’s estate, a figure that brings the total the city will have paid her family to 14.75 million dollars. The Fort Worth City Council is scheduled to take up the settlement on August 25. If approved, the agreement still has to move through a probate court before it

Daphy Michel, a 31-year-old Haitian immigrant, died of hypothermia days after ICE released her onto the streets of Pittsburgh. A medical examiner ruled her death a homicide. Her family is now suing the federal government.

Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old father of two, was shot on New Year's Eve. Months later, his father is calling on his community to make noise and demand accountability.

Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and a coalition of civil rights groups have called a new March on Washington for August 28 to defend voting rights.

Alameda County supervisors voted unanimously to adopt a sweeping plan for Black residents, with cash payments still on the table.

A Reuters image of a woman on the Metro amid Patriot Front marchers went viral over the 250th anniversary weekend and forced even Republicans to respond.

Trump is spending primetime tonight on an election from six years ago. Here's what Black America actually needs him to talk about.

From Trayvon Martin to George Floyd to a Mississippi teen found dead this month, Ben Crump has built a career forcing America to answer for Black lives.