Civil Rights Headlines
Civil Rights Headlines
November | 2023
September | 2023
- Victim’s family receives acknowledgement from New Orleans City Council after three decades
- Behind the Standoff: The Kenneth Borden Story -- 53 Years Later
- FBI launches inquiry into alleged abuse by police at Baton Rouge warehouse
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says 'whole truth' about Black history must be taught
- OJJ removes incarcerated youth from Angola to facility in Jackson Parish
- Violent juvenile offenders can no longer be held at Angola facility, judge rules
- Southern University Law Center gets grant to aid in juvenile justice reform
- Louisiana's youth justice reforms have stalled. The feds will pay $250K to revive them
- State backpedals on deal to pause youth transfers to Angola
August | 2023
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7 maps the Louisiana Legislature will consider for new congressional districts
- Henrietta Lacks’ family settles lawsuit with a biotech company that used her cells without consent
- Louisiana attorney general's lawsuit seeks to roll back civil rights laws
July | 2023
- Alabama lawmakers refuse to create a 2nd majority-Black congressional district
- ACLU of Louisiana Press Release: Emergency Filing Details Routine Solitary Confinement for Youth at Angola Prison
- 133 DEGREES AND NO AC: KIDS AT ANGOLA PRISON KEPT IN POTENTIALLY DEADLY HEAT
- Louisiana legislature overrides governor’s veto of ban on gender-affirming care for minors
- Why A Victim Of Police Brutality Chose Restorative Justice For The Cop
- With new state law in tow, Louisiana motorists could get relief with traffic woes
- Livingston jury convicts politically connected man of child sex crimes that were ignored for years
June | 2023
- 60 years ago, Medgar Evers became a martyr of the Civil Rights Movement
- Germany will pay more than $1.4 billion next year to survivors of Nazi atrocities
- June 14, 1953: Martha White refuses to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the Baton Rouge bus boycott
- Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
- On 50th anniversary of the UpStairs Lounge Fire, a look at LGBTQ+ history in New Orleans
May | 2023
- A California panel has called for billions in reparations for descendants of slaves
- Book removals may have violated student civil rights, Education Dept. says
- Birmingham’s Use of Police Dogs on Civil Rights Protesters Shocked Liberal Onlookers. But the Backstory Was All-American.
- Historic acquittal in Louisiana fuels fight to review 'Jim Crow' verdicts
- The Supreme Court outlawed split juries, but hundreds remain in prison anyway
- Police find explosives 2 miles from Black Wall Street, man arrested
- Racism is at the center of high Black maternal mortality rate, experts say
- Baton Rouge contractors now required to 'ban the box,' intended to give ex-convicts job opportunities
- Rape, incest exceptions to Louisiana abortion ban rejected by GOP lawmakers
April | 2023
- Episcopal Diocese Of New York Apologizes For Church’s Affiliation With Transatlantic Slave Trade, Pledges $1M For Reparations
- Louisiana doctors detail unintended consequences of state's abortion ban
- Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and tireless activist, dies aged 96
- Man found dead eaten by bed bugs in Atlanta jail, lawyer says
- 150 years after White mob slaughtered Blacks in rural Louisiana, new monument tells true story of Colfax Massacre
- Youth records in mainly Black Louisiana areas may go public
March | 2023
- University of Houston will no longer consider DEI statements when hiring
- Civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams looks back on her incredible journey
- New Civil Rights Trail marker in downtown honors Southern students who fought for equality
- This is America: The persistance of formidable women, From Myrlie Evers to Patty Murrary
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks out alone in dissent in abortion appeal
- Louisiana has highest number of African-American judges per capita
- Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Is Running For Mayor Of Houston: Did She Drop HR40 Reparations Study Bill?
- Louisville police engaged in pattern of misconduct, Justice Dept. finds
February | 2023
- "This Is Bigger Than Her"
- Buffalo mass shooter speaks to victims' families, sentenced to life in prison
- LSU’s new law school dean expected to take law center ‘to the next level of excellence’
- Metro council approves million-dollar settlement in lawsuit over arrests stemming from 2016 protests
January | 2023
- LDOC violated the constitution by keeping people imprisoned past release dates, feds say
- National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Applauds the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act Signed Into Law
December | 2022
- Congress approves removing statue of Supreme Court chief justice who wrote Dred Scott decision
- Arrest, Release, Repeat: How police and jails are misused to respond to social problems
- ‘Vocal and Unafraid’: How Justice Jackson Is Talking About Race on the Supreme Court
- Louisiana officers charged in Black motorist’s deadly arrest
November | 2022
- In first day of civil rights trial, former David Wade prisoners describe years of solitary confinement, filthy living areas and poor mental health care
- Mental health care at David Wade Correctional Center ruled unconstitutional
- 50 years later, justice still absent for two deaths during Southern campus protest
- What led to the 1972 shooting death of two Southern University students during a protest
- After 1972 Southern shootings, deputies deny knowing who fired fatal shots
October | 2022
- Supreme Court weighs Alabama voting rights clash
- Nonunanimous jury ban isn't retroactive, Louisiana Supreme Court rules
- Supreme Court considers Harvard and University of North Carolina's use of affirmative action. Here's what you need to know
- Report: State has saved $150 million from 2017 criminal justice reform legislation package
September | 2022
- The FBI monitored Aretha Franklin's role in the civil rights movement for years
- New congressional maps dilute Black power, critics say
- Alabama sidesteps compensation for survivor of '63 KKK blast
August | 2022
- Attorney Ben Crump joins La. woman denied abortion to address potential legal action
- Yes, Slavery Is on the Ballot in These States
- Native Families' Right to Stay Together is at Stake at the Supreme Court
- Salman Rushdie recovering from 'life changing' injuries after he was stabbed on stage
- Mayor Broome 'disappointed' after metro Council approves majority white voting maps
- Albert Woodfox, held in solitary confinement for 43 years, dies aged 75
- Four current, former Louisville police officers federally charged in Breonna Taylor's death
- ‘They want us gone’: Black Louisianans fight to rebuild a year after Ida
July | 2022
- Driver’s License Suspensions for Unpaid Debt: Punishing Poverty
- Here’s the proof against Carolyn Bryant Donham in the Emmett Till case. Is it enough to convict her?
June | 2022
May | 2022
- "50th Anniversary of Angela Davis's Non-Guilty Verdict"
- Dignity for Henrietta Lacks Is Worth Fighting For
- A long-awaited apology, given 58 years later, still means everything to a retired N.O. judge
- Witness to Louisiana Cold Case KKK Murder Tells His Story
April | 2022
March | 2022
- Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime into law
- Senate passes anti-lynching bill and sends federal hate crime legislation to Biden
Feburary | 2022
January | 2022
- More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. Who were they, and how did they shape the U.S.?
- Fred Prejean, activist, and man behind moving of Lafayette's Mouton statue, dies at 75
December | 2021
November | 2021
- There were four girls in New Orleans that day
- Prosecutor drops charges against officer in rare case of restorative justice mediation
- After scathing criticism, U. of Florida will let Professors Testify Against the State
- Journal of Legal Education Issue Explores the Impact of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter