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  • Vauhxx Booker, spoke during a press conference after a special prosecutor charged him with felony assault

    Activist Faces Criminal Charges After Reporting Racist Assault Against Him

    Vauhxx Booker says he is being retaliated against after telling police that a group of white men assaulted him in Indiana, and threatened to “get a noose.”
    Shani Saxon Aug 3, 2021 4:27PM EDT
    Head shot of St Louis Chief Prosecutor Kimberly Gardner.

    St. Louis Prosecutor Sues City for Racism

    Kimberly Gardner accuses city officials of a “racially motivated conspiracy to deny the civil rights of racial minorities.”
    Shani Saxon Jan 16, 2020 5:02PM EST
    Martin Luther King at a podium

    New Podcast 'Voices of a Movement' Brings Legendary Civil Rights Era Stories to Life

     “Some of them are names you know, some aren’t—but all of them have stories that need to be told while they’re still here to tell them,” say the podcast’s creators. 

    Tiarra Mukherjee Apr 5, 2019 1:52PM EDT
    Black man in plaid shirt with two small children on his lap

    Federal Prosecutors Open Civil Rights Investigation Into Police Killing of Stephon Clark

    It comes on the heels of the California attorney general’s decision to not file criminal charges against the officers identified in the shooting.

    Shani Saxon Mar 6, 2019 3:37PM EST
    A demonstrator holds up a red, black and white poster that reads "Nope."

    Senate Votes to Place Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court

    Activists disrupted the proceedings as Vice President Mike Pence called for the vote.

    Kenrya Rankin Oct 6, 2018 3:58PM EDT
    Protestors, one holds sign that reads, "Cut your hair, not the budget."

    These Three Federal Civil Rights Offices Are in Trouble

    The proposed 2018 budget continues the Trump Administration’s trend of devaluing—and defunding—federal civil rights enforcement.

    Kenrya Rankin May 30, 2017 1:36PM EDT
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