Today would have been Sonya Massey’s 37th birthday. Instead of celebrating with cake and balloons, her family is reminded of ...

The Sangamon County Board approved the settlement on Tuesday, seven months after a deputy shot the unarmed woman in her home ...

In the early morning hours of July 6, Massey called 911 to report a prowler outside her home, setting in motion events that ...

Wednesday would have been Sonya Massey’s 37th birthday. Instead, it was the day her family’s lawyers announced a $10 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against Sangamon County and ...

Titusville residents protested at a city council meeting demanding answers in the police shooting death of 25-year-old ...

The Rock Island Police Department has released the footage from the body camera and squad car camera from the incident where ...

Jotaka Eaddy, founder & CEO of #WinWithBlackWomen, and Essence Communications will be honored at the 56th NAACP Image Awards ...

After some of Florida's top schools saw declines in law school applications over the last two years, data points to a ...

She joins a lineage of social justice award honorees that includes Benjamin Crump, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Stacey Abrams. Essence Communications will receive the Vanguard Award for fashion ...

After President Trump ordered a temporary freeze on civil rights litigation, the future of the DOJ's consent decrees with ...

Racial incidents and discrimination cases surge in Beverly Hills High School and Police Department, sparking lawsuits and concerns about the future of justice.