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Black Woman Wins $15M Lawsuit After Her White Boss Called Her the N-Word

Nationwide — La-Kebbia “Kiki” Wilson, an African American woman from Fresno, California, who endured years of racial harassment at work, won $15 million in a federal lawsuit against the city. The jury found the city liable for racial discrimination and retaliation. A white co-worker, Charles Smith, also received damages. According to Atlanta Black Star, Wilson’s struggles began in 2004 when she joined Fresno’s code enforcement division. She said her supervisor, Howard Lacy, displayed open hostility toward Black employees, making racist […]

todayMarch 26, 2026 18

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Innocent Black Man Ambushed By Police Files Lawsuit After Video Proves His Innocence

Nationwide — Jeffrey Sutton, an African American man from Bloomfield, New Jersey, is suing his local police department after being shot multiple times during a 2020 arrest attempt. He says officers lied about the incident, claiming he tried to run them over, though the video later showed otherwise. In November 2020, Sutton was driving his Mercedes-Benz through downtown Bloomfield when unmarked police cars suddenly boxed him in. The officers, dressed in plain clothes, were responding to an alert labeling his […]

todayOctober 22, 2025 2

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Fed Gov. Lisa Cook slaps Trump administration with lawsuit to block her attempted firing

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, has sued the Trump administration in an effort to overturn the president’s attempt to fire her, launching an unprecedented legal battle that could significantly reshape the Fed’s longstanding political independence. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to block her firing and “confirm her status” as a member of the Fed’s governing board. No president has sought to fire a Fed governor in the institution’s 112-year history until Trump posted a letter on media late Monday saying that […]

todayAugust 28, 2025 3

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Texas election map for 2026 are racially biased, voting-rights advocates say in lawsuit

Voting-rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn a redistricting map drawn by Texas Republicans meant to favor the party in the 2026 midterm elections, saying it weakens the electoral influence of Black voters. The NAACP and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed the lawsuit in Texas. They accuse Texas legislative leaders of engaging in gerrymandering to prevent Black voters from electing candidates of their choice. “The state of Texas is only 40 percent white, but white voters control over 73 […]

todayAugust 27, 2025 2

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Candace Owens slapped with lawsuit for claiming French president’s wife was ‘born a man’

Conservative pundit Candace Owens was hit with a defamation lawsuit filed by French President Emmanuel Macron for her repeated false claims that his wife was born a man. Macron and the first lady of France, Brigitte Macron, accuse Owens of “relentless bullying on a worldwide scale” in the civil suit that seeks an unspecified amount of punitive damages. Since March 2024, Owens has asserted on her podcast and other media platforms that Brigitte Macron was a transgender woman and that […]

todayJuly 23, 2025 3

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NAACP lawsuit says Department of Education is ‘intentionally discriminating’ against Black Americans with anti-DEI orders

The NAACP is challenging the Trump administration in a new federal lawsuit that accuses the U.S. Department of Education of violating the civil rights of Black American students with its broad anti-DEI policies. In the lawsuit, filed in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, joined by the Legal Defense Fund, targets the DOE’s threat to withhold federal funding from school districts if they do not eliminate a range of programs and curriculums designed to foster racial […]

todayApril 16, 2025 1

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Federal workers file class action lawsuit saying white men kept jobs while they got fired in DEI backlash

A group of federal workers say that massive layoffs tied to President Trump’s DEI ban targeted workers of color and women—even if their jobs had nothing to do with DEI. These workers have now filed a class action lawsuit against Trump’s administration and are being represented by the ACLU of D.C., according to NBC News. The legal argument workers are making is that their First Amendment rights were violated when they were fired over the perception that they had pro-DEI […]

todayMarch 27, 2025 4

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Civil rights group’s lawsuit using Ku Klux Klan Act is last hope of holding Trump accountability for Jan. 6

One of the nation’s leading civil rights groups is fighting to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.  “We have to decide, as a nation, do we want to allow that type of racialized political violence to be normalized and to go unaccounted for,” said Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The civil rights organization is leading the civil lawsuit, Smith […]

todayJanuary 7, 2025 3

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Judge rules that Trump campaign must stop using ‘Hold On, I’m Coming’ after lawsuit from Isaac Hayes’ family

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge in Atlanta ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump and his campaign must stop using the song “Hold On, I’m Coming” while the family of one of the song’s co-writers pursues a lawsuit against the former president over its use. The estate of Isaac Hayes Jr. filed a lawsuit last month alleging that Trump, his campaign and several of his allies had infringed its copyright and should pay damages. After a hearing on the estate’s request for an […]

todaySeptember 4, 2024 1