New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced Tuesday that Las Cruces police officer Brad Lunsford was being charged with voluntary manslaughter for shooting and killing a Black nurse, Presley Eze. The shooting... Read more »
At least five Black plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against law enforcement around the country, claiming that they were misidentified by facial recognition technology and then wrongly arrested, reports Sudhin Thanawala for the... Read more »
On Saturday, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit temporarily blocked a venture capital fund’s program that would have awarded grants to Black women-run businesses. The program, Fearless Strivers Grant... Read more »
Several members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and their supporters were indicted by a San Diego County Grand Jury on Monday for hate crimes after attacking three Black men in a... Read more »
Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Angela Mackie-Rutledge back to our pages. Click... Read more »
UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorized a murder charge on Wednesday against an acting police officer over the fatal shooting of Chris Kaba, a Black man, on September 6, 2022. CPS charged... Read more »
These online and in-person meetings aim to gather input from Black communities, individuals, and organizations providing justice-related services. The goal is to create Canada’s “Black Justice Strategy.” As a result, last August... Read more »
The contract management company Ironclad today announced plans to launch a chat interface for complex contract analysis that it says will open a window into the black box of artificial intelligence by... Read more »
Florida Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh declared Florida’s most recent congressional map unconstitutional on Saturday because it weakens Black voters’ ability to elect representatives of their choice. The case is in the... Read more »
in June, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a bill into law that is supposed to partially decriminalize sex work throughout the state. The new law, LD 1435, would institute what’s known as... Read more »