We speak to civil rights lawyer Ben Crump about the ongoing epidemic of anti-Black police violence and impunity for law ...

Crump has been dubbed "Black America's attorney general" by civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton. Here's what to know about ...

The aunt of Brianna Taylor pleaded not guilty to charges related to her arrest outside the sentencing hearing of former LMPD ...

The artist said that she made the decision after she said she learned that her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty ...

Amy Sherald withdrew “American Sublime” from the National Portrait Gallery, saying the Smithsonian proposed replacing her ...

Harmeet Dhillon, President Trump’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, has asked a judge who will be sentencing a ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about the sentencing of Brett Hankison, the former police ...

Federal sentencing guidelines recommended Hankison serve between 10 and 14 years for violating Taylor’s civil rights. The former officer, who was fired from the Louisville Police Department, ...

Days after former Louisville Metro Police Department officer Brett Hankison was federally sentenced in the Breonna Taylor ...

The U.S. Justice Department office tasked with protecting peoples' civil rights has lost 368 employees since President Donald ...

A federal judge is set to sentence an ex-Kentucky police officer convicted of using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid in 2020 ...

The sentencing of police officer Brett Hankison to 33 months in prison by a Trump-appointed judge is a travesty—even if it’s ...