The Mississippi Senate discriminated against a Black attorney by paying her about half of what her white colleagues were paid for doing the same job, the U.S. Justice Department says in a lawsuit it ...

Tulsa mayor-elect Monroe Nichols has made history as the first Black person elected ever in the city. The results came Tuesday night in the general election. Unofficial results from the State Election ...

Fulton County Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore’s passing on October 9, 2024, marks the loss of a trailblazer in Georgia’s legal community. As the first African-American woman to serve on the City ...

Political observers expect significant interest in an upcoming Supreme Court vacancy following a Tuesday decision by voters ...

The November 5 election has a variety of issues on the ballot in Oklahoma, from the race for the president to state questions.

Congress will welcome its first openly trans member, and the Senate will include two Black women simultaneously for the first ...

The 2024 election brought some historic victories for the country on Tuesday, which will see Congress welcome its first ...

Officer Adam Coy, who served nearly 20 years with the Columbus police force, shot Hill four times in a garage nearly four ...

Two Canton, Ohio, officers have been charged with reckless homicide in connection with the April death of Frank Tyson, a 53-year-old Black man who died while being restrained, authorities announced ...

The debate over abortion rights is leading to expensive campaigns for state Supreme Courts in several states this year. Groups on the left and right are spending heavily on races ...

South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg ...

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