It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations. Read moreReparations for Black Californians could top $800 billion

Florida’s move to expand its prohibition on teaching sexual orientation or gender identity in the classroom comes as Republican lawmakers in other states are pursuing their own versions of what critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. Read moreFlorida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law spreading to other states

Vice President Kamala Harris was welcomed in Ghana on Sunday by adoring crowds, then on Tuesday she stepped through the black doors of a Colonial-era seaside fort and down into the dungeons, where millions of enslaved Africans were held captive before they were loaded onto ships bound for th… Read moreKamala Harris confronts the past and future in Africa

In this conservative corner of northern Louisiana, where reverence for law enforcement runs deep and Blue Lives Matter flags often fly alongside the Stars and Stripes, the case of five white officers charged in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene is seen as anything but a … Read moreProsecutor in Greene case long accused of racial bias

A South Carolina barbecue chain known for its pro-segregation stance in a landmark 1960s case and its embrace of the Confederate flag in 2000 is facing allegations of racism and sexual harassment by the fired general manager of one of its restaurants. Read moreBBQ chain with racist history faces new lawsuit

A massive tornado obliterated the modest one-story home that Kimberly Berry shared with her two daughters in the Mississippi Delta flatlands, leaving only a foundation and some random belongings – a toppled refrigerator, a dresser and matching nightstand, a bag of Christmas decorations, some… Read moreMississippi tornado recovery tough for poor residents

A northern Virginia police officer was fired last Thursday after fatally shooting an unarmed Black man last month who allegedly had stolen two pairs of designer sunglasses from a busy, upscale shopping mall. Read moreVA cop who killed Black suspected shoplifter fired

Several deputies from a Mississippi sheriff’s department being investigated by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations have been involved in at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 – two of them fatal. Read morePolice accused of shoving guns in mouths of 2 Black men

Rescuers raced Saturday to search for survivors and help hundreds of people left homeless after a powerful tornado cut a devastating path through Mississippi, killing at least 25 people, injuring dozens, and flattening entire blocks as it carved a path of destruction for more than an hour. O… Read more‘There’s nothing left’: Deep South tornadoes kill 26