Justice Department Continues to Look at 20 Cold Cases from the Civil Rights Era; 13 of Which Are Police-Involved Killings In Southern States

This week the United States Justice Department closed its investigation into the death of Emmett Till. Despite finding no new evidence to bring new charges in the 14-year-old’s 1955 lynching, the FBI’s Cold Case Initiative continues to investigate other cold-case crimes with racial bias implications from the […]

Ahmaud Arbery Slaying Trial Goes to Jury After Defense Attorney Renews Mistrial Motion By Citing ‘Lynching’ Threat from New Black Panthers ‘Mob’ Outside Courthouse

The jury in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial will continue deliberations Wednesday in a case entwined with racial tensions. Three white men face nine charges for killing the 25-year-old Black man near Brunswick, Georgia. Arbery’s death led to a reform of the state’s archaic citizen’s arrest law, […]