Perry Sylvester Jackson, 28, of Marysville, Calif., was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez to serve 70 months in prison for violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in a 2011 racially motivated attack against a white man and an African-American woman in Marysville.

Josh Jambon, 52, a resident of Grand Isle, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today in front of U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan to two counts of federal civil rights violations, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis for the Southern District of Mississippi announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted John Louis Blalack, 20, of Brandon, Mississippi, Sarah Adelia Graves, 21, of Crystal Springs, Mississippi, Robert Henry Rice, 23, of Brandon, and Shelbie Brooke Richards, 20, of Pearl, Mississippi, for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to commit federal hate crimes against African-American people in Jackson, Mississippi

Mr. Chairperson, distinguished Members of the committee, and representatives of civil society. My name is Mark Kappelhoff and I serve as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. It is an honor to be a member of the U.S. delegation and to share with you some of the Justice Department’s work to address racial discrimination and to fulfill our obligations under the convention.

Mr. Chairperson, distinguished members of the committee, and representatives of civil society, it is an honor to be a part of the U.S. delegation and share some of the highlights of the Department of Justice’s efforts to eliminate racial discrimination and uphold human rights in the area of criminal justice.

Coronavirus pandemic widens racial and political divisions

A spate of recent news accounts reveals what many experts have feared: Black communities in the U.S. are experiencing some of the highest fatality rates from COVID-19. But without an understanding of the policy contexts that have shaped conditions in Black-majority neighborhoods, one may assume the rapid spread of the coronavirus there is caused by…

The NCAA basketball tournament is one of the most-viewed sporting events in the United States. In 2019, nearly 20 million viewers watched the championship game, and each tournament game (67 total) averaged about 10 million viewers. Over 17 million people completed a March Madness tournament bracket for the 68-team tournament. Among youth, basketball is one…

It is hard to overstate the importance of the new study on intergenerational racial disparities by Raj Chetty and his colleagues at the Equality of Opportunity Project. Simply put, it will change the way we think the world works. Making good use of big data—de-identified longitudinal data from the U.S. Census and the IRS covering…

The lack of diversity in the field of economics – in addition to the lack of progress relative to other STEM fields – is drawing increasing attention in the profession, but nearly all the focus has been on economists at academic institutions, and little attention has been devoted to the diversity of the economists employed…

March of Dimes volunteer ambassador and world famous photographer Anne Geddes is featured in a PSA to raise awareness about preventing preterm birth and give more babies a healthy start in life.

The spread of COVID-19 threatens the lives of more than 2.3 million people locked up in prisons and jails throughout the United States. We look at how the call to release prisoners during the coronavirus pandemic makes the case for prison abolition, with scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, co-founder of California Prison Moratorium Project and Critical Resistance and the author of "Golden Gulag: Prison, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California." Her forthcoming book is "Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition."

Despite a new system designed to reduce inequities, significant racial disparities exist among patients awaiting kidney transplants, finds a new study.

Racial discrimination at a young age puts African Americans in an undesirable upbringing which may lead to accelerated aging, depression, premature development

Among the tweets posted included: 'Eminem can still hold this p****…' and one that read, 'Eminem has a little p****.'

Sweden striker Alexander Isak was subjected to racist abuse by Romania fans during his side's 2-0 win. The game was stopped by the referee as the first step of UEFA's protocol.

Jeremy Corbyn waded into the furious row over the royal couple with a spokeswoman saying he understood how coverage could have a 'negative impact on people'.

Married At First Sight's Cathy Evans found herself at the centre of controversy earlier this week.

Republican Senator Mark Kirk has lost his Illinois seat to Bangkok-born Democratic opponent Tammy Duckworth (pictured) who he racially abused during a debate.

Twitter users have criticized Brooklyn-born conservative pundit Dennis Prager for voicing disappointment that he can't use racial slurs to describe Black people any longer.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s nephew called President Trump 'racially ignorant' but 'not a racist' after meeting with him privately before an ill-timed MLK event in the Oval Office Friday.  

Shocking video footage shows a man walking towards a group of black youths with a gun before he hurls racist abuse at them in Miami. Mark Bartlett faces hate crime charges over the incident.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - Many people saw more than the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery's life when a video emerged this week of white men armed with guns...

Both Reading and Cardiff City will be launching an investigation after alleged racial and homophobic chanting at their FA Cup tie at the Madejski prompted a stadium announcement.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that he believes it will take more than 20 months to fully rebuild New York City and announces different councils that will focus on reopening the Big Apple.

President Donald Trump tweeted a campaign ad on Monday that contained a racially-charged attack on Joe Biden and features former President Barack Obama.

Liverpool and Manchester United are divided by a deep rivalry, but during the 2011-12 season that dislike turned into an unsavoury and unforeseen twist following one incident.

The comedian filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday alleging that she was unfairly treated because of her race.

The 31-year-old's rep said that Chyna had every right to be there as someone who's in the entertainment industry with her presence on reality TV.

A middle-aged woman has been filmed telling a Chinese cafe worker to 'go back to China and keep your disease over there', in a vile racist attack in Melbourne.

FIFA have vowed to investigate the racial abuse suffered by QPR's Under 18 side once they receive an official report on the incident. Football's governing body are awaiting details.

Wayne Hoch, 35, was driven to mental collapse after being taunted over his South African nationality by colleagues at UK firm Thor Atkinson Steel Fabrications Ltd.

Wales captain Ashley Williams says he would lead his team-mates off the pitch if they were subjected to the same racist abuse as England were in Bulgaria.

Liverpool and Manchester United are divided by a deep rivalry, but during the 2011-12 season that dislike turned into an unsavoury and unforeseen twist following one incident.

Many people saw more than the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery's life when a video emerged this week of white men armed with guns confronting the black man, a struggle with punches thrown, three shots fired and Arbery collapsing dead. The February 23 shooting in coastal Georgia is drawing comparisons to a much darker period of US history when extrajudicial killings of black people, almost exclusively at the hands of white male vigilantes, inflicted racial terror on African Americans. It frequently happened with law enforcement complicity or feigned ignorance. The footage of Arbery's death was not the only thing that rattled the nation's conscience. It took more than two months for his pursuers who told police they suspected he was a burglar to be arrested and taken into custody. That is fuelling calls for the resignation of local authorities who initially investigated the case and reforms of Georgia's criminal justice system. The modern-day lynching of Mr. Arbery is yet another ...

Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff reveals Lewis Hamilton's story of racial abuse in his childhood and how he survived discrimination to rise from karting to the summit of motorsport.

South Africa's parliament is closed and all its meetings are currently held by video conference calls as the country remains under strict lockdown restrictions to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

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Fewer than half of the nearly 170 million U.S. residents ages 25 to 64 have obtained a postsecondary degree or certificate. The statistics for adult students of color who have attained higher education are even lower.

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