Reporting on civil rights enforcement, federal policy rollbacks and the court cases shaping voting, housing and equal protection in the United States.
A father pulled a concealed firearm on two teenagers at an Indiantown school bus stop after his son reported being bullied. The sheriff says no law was broken. Florida’s weapons statute names school bus stops specifically — and its self-defense exception is why this case ended where it did.
A grand jury declined to indict anyone in Nolan Wells’ death. His family is seeking answers about his injuries, further forensic work, and an independent federal review.
Twelve days after his acquittal, Lil Durk posted a photo of Malcolm X with an inspirational quote beside it. There is no record of Malcolm X saying those words. The archives that would settle it are free, public, and searchable.
For nearly a century, the exclusion this series has documented was legal — a company or a union could refuse to hire someone because of race and face no federal employment-discrimination law at all. Part 5 of a 12-part series, covering 1964 to 1970.
A Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company official told a Washington, D.C. radio audience, on the record, that the company would not hire Black operators until the city’s schools were integrated — and it would take, in his own estimate, two or three more generations. Part 4 of a 12-part series, covering 1952 to 1974.
According to information received by the Hana Human Rights Organization, on Sunday evening, September 20, 2026, Amanj Mohammadpour, a 33 year old civil rights activist and journalist from Bukan, was arrested by Ministry of Intelligence forces and transferred to an undisclosed location.
It took a Black labor leader threatening to put 100,000 marchers in the streets of the nation’s capital — and a war that made every available worker matter — to force the first real opening in the telephone industry’s hiring pattern. Part 3 of a 12-part series, covering 1941 to 1953.
By the time the Bell System had grown into the largest private employer in the country, the union that represented most of its skilled workers barred Black membership outright — and the company’s own hiring pattern needed no written rule to produce the same result. Part 2 of a 12-part series, covering 1900 to 1945.