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A court filing introduced late last year in a civil lawsuit against former Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson includes a sworn admission from Wilson that he and other Ferguson officers used the n-word to describe black people, but an attorney for Wilson said Monday that his client only used the word when repeating witness accounts…

Ta-Nehisi Coates in-depth look at the ascendance of Barak Obama to the highest office in the land and his impact as the nation’s first African-American president.

Since 2005, Washington D.C. has agreed or been ordered to pay at least $31.6 million in 173 cases alleging police misconduct, including claims of false arrest and excessive use of force, according to a Washington Post analysis of data obtained from the D.C. attorney general’s office

A New York Times investigation found that employees at the Department of Homeland Security, which is charged with securing the border and enforcing immigration laws, have taken $15 million in bribes from drug cartels and others since 2006.

Teacher unions spent millions during the 2016 presidential and congress elections in support of Democrats but came up short.

Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors across the country still using them?

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

In Tuscaloosa today, nearly one in three black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened. Though James Dent could watch Central High School’s homecoming parade from the porch of his faded white bungalow, it had been years since he’d bothered. But last fall, Dent’s oldest granddaughter, D’Leisha,…

Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: a handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home. “Show all mail to supv” — supervisor — “for copying prior to going out on the street,” read the…