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Jan 19, 2025 | 
msn.com | Phillip Jackson
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
huffpost.com | Phillip Jackson
Linda Lowery was just 14 years old in 1965 when she marched 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in support of voting rights. She and several other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day, taking it upon themselves to demonstrate for civil rights at a young age. On Jan. 2, 1965, King spoke before 700 people at Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which launched what is recognized now as the Selma Voting Rights Campaign.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Phillip Jackson
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Monday that he plans to nominate a conservative California attorney to lead a critical division of the Department of Justice. Harmeet Dhillon, a former vice chairwoman of the California GOP and a national committeewoman for the Republican National Committee, was selected by Trump to serve as assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Phillip Jackson
14 Major Events That History Tried to Sweep Under the RugHistory is full of lessons, some that we shout from the rooftops and others that we’d rather pretend never happened. While it’s easy to celebrate …
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Phillip Jackson
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price (D) appears to have been recalled from office in California. Local election officials said all precincts had reported, and the recall vote was ahead by nearly 30 points. Price, who has been DA since 2023, originally ran for the office on a criminal justice reform platform, focusing on not charging minors as adults and holding possible rogue police officers accountable.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Phillip Jackson
A right-wing sheriff in North Texas appears to have won reelection, 54% to 46%, with all votes counted, according to Tarrant County elections officials. Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn succeeded despite facing scrutiny over deaths in the Fort Worth jail that he and the Tarrant County Sheriffâs Office oversee.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Phillip Jackson
Monique Worrell, a state’s attorney in Florida who last year was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), is projected to win her reelection bid. Worrell, a Democrat, defeated Andrew Bain, whom DeSantis had appointed to replace her. Bain is not affiliated with a political party, but he had garnered support from conservatives during the campaign. Worrell outpaced Bain, gaining 57% of votes.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Phillip Jackson
With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, civil rights attorneys and the families of victims of police violence are sounding the alarm about what they see as a likely consequence of a second Donald Trump presidency: dissolving any progress on police reform that has been made under President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Phillip Jackson
A federal juryacquitted two former Memphis police officers on Thursday for violating the civil rights of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, in January 2023 during a traffic stop just minutes away from his parents’ home. They were convicted on witness tampering charges, and a third officer was convicted of violating Nichols’ civil rights, though on a lesser charge.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Phillip Jackson
The Department of Justice announced on Monday a federal review into the two-day racist massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, more than 100 years ago, when white supremacists killed Black civilians while destroying homes and thriving businesses in the predominantly Black community. The 1921 massacre led to the deaths of at least 300 people after a 19-year-old Black teenager, Dick Rowland, was accused of raping a white woman, Sarah Page.
